Hoops Sagrado

One of my non meteorological duties here at WUSA is as a live feature reporter during the morning news. This morning I was in Adams Morgan at the old Mackie school gym where I met a man named Bryan Weaver. Bryan was working with High School kids from the District. Bryan is the elected ANC representative from Adams Morgan, he's also a political consultant, but more importantly, he is the man behind a program called Hoops Sagrado.

Hoops Sagrado (Translated as Sacred Hoops) uses basketball to mentor inner city youths in the District. The program takes a couple dozen of the teenagers to Guatemala for 30 days during the month of July. The kids teach basketball to Guatemala kids, learn Spanish by immersion 4 hours a day, and play exhibition games against some high level college and National teams.

Along with the amazing experience of spending 30 days in a foreign country that more than 100 DC teens have already had, Hoops Sagrado also funds scholarships for nearly 100 indigenous teenagers from rural areas in Guatemala to attend secondary school. Guatemala has problems too and Hoops Sagrado is trying to help them also.

If you'd like to learn more, check out their web site at:http://www.hoopssagrado.com. Perhaps you know a teen who wants to be in the program,and they can alwys use donations to help pay for all of this.