Sports Development

Building Skills.
Building Character.
Building Champions.

Through football and basketball, we empower children and young people to stay active, develop life skills and build the confidence that carries them far beyond the pitch.

Sports like this give them more than just a game — it gives them hope, stress relief, protection from negative influences, and a belief in a better tomorrow.

— The Protota Foundation Team

About the Programme

More Than a Game — A Reason to Believe Again

In Adamawa, thousands of children grew up displaced. Years of insurgency and banditry tore communities apart — families forced from their homes, schools closed, entire childhoods swallowed by conflict. Many of the children we work with arrived at IDP camps with nothing. No school, no routine, no safe ground. And no reason to believe the future would be different from the past.

We brought a basketball court. The Adamawa Basketball Academy is the most concrete thing we could offer inside that reality — not aid, not a seminar, but a court, a coach who shows up every week, and teammates who need you to show up too. On that court, a displaced child is not defined by what conflict took from him. He has a position. He has a team. He belongs to something still standing.

For these children, the court is not recreation — it is rehabilitation. And for some, it will be the thing that opens a door conflict tried to seal shut: a scholarship, a career, a future built on what they are capable of — not on what happened to them.

In Kaduna, We Are Still Building. A football match at RISE Conference 2.0 showed us talent that has nowhere to go. We are working to launch a full football academy — and we need partners who believe sport, given seriously and consistently, can redirect a life. If that is you, build this with us.