Hoops 4 Hope Fund-Raising

Aug. 3, 2017

Star Staff

Hoops 4 Hope, the 22-year-old South African-based youth mentoring-basketball program founded by Mark Crandall of Amagansett, is again raising money to send a shipping container of “upcycled sneakers, basketballs, basketball uniforms, and essential parts to keep our Schaefer bus running” to Zimbabwe in the fall.

GoodCircle is helping with this project, expected to cost about $24,000. Donations can be made online through the GoodCircle.org website. One-third of the goal has been pledged thus far.

Twin Forks Moving and Storage of Bridgehampton, a major donor, will transport a container it has donated to Linden, N.J., whence it will travel by boat to Durban, South Africa, before being sent by train to Hoops 4 Hope’s center in Harare, Zimbabwe.

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