Binar Futures is a basketball charity that uses the sport to create better health, cultural and education outcomes for Aboriginal kids. Founded by Adam Desmond, the organization exposes children to other vital programs through basketball.
It looks just like a normal basketball game in suburban Australia, but for these kids, there's so much more at stake. The sun has just risen on a cold, wet morning when Adam Desmond pulls into the car park of his Perth dry-cleaning business. In the back of his van are bags of dirty basketball jerseys — evidence of a week away from home running kids sports tournaments.'But I enjoy coming in early and starting my day this way.
' After a couple of hours, Adam climbs back into his van and makes the short trip down the road to his second gig — the basketball charity he's deeply passionate about. On the surface, Binar Futures is a basketball club. It runs its own league, holds school clinics and runs training sessions four nights a week.It takes the interest many Aboriginal kids have in basketball and uses that to create better health, cultural and education outcomes. Binar Futures has been so successful that Adam was recognised by The Fathering Project as its Sports Father of the Year.But after that introduction, they are soon exposed to other things to get involved in. Adam likens using basketball as a gateway to other important programs — such as homework or cultural sessions — to pairing boring vegetables with a delicious food kids like.'If you just said, 'Oh, we're just starting a program, and it's going to be after school after you do your seven hours of school, we're going to keep you back for another two hours and do more sort of schoolwork' — most kids are not going to volunteer to do that,' he says.About 5,000 children have taken part in Binar's programs, a far cry from its humble beginnings in 2011. Back then, Adam was helping run a program called Night Hoops, which also used basketball to divert at-risk youth from antisocial behaviour.He decided to take some of those kids and enter them in a basketball league in another part of Perth. Adam acted as the team manager and coach, but also the bus driver, collecting five boys each week for game
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