NBA star Steve Nash and the City of Victoria are teaming up to build a culture, art and sports and reconciliation centre in northern Uganda. The project, led by the Victoria-based Steve Nash Foundation, will help traumatized, impoverished youth. Construction should begin next year.
"The youths of that community have experienced absolute horrors," said Nash, the 2005 and 2006 MVP in the National Basketball Association, speaking outside a basketball camp in Victoria. "We want to create a centre to give these youths the opportunity we're afforded."
The centre will provide free basketball, soccer and other sports equipment, art materials, classes and counselling.
The centre will be built in Gulu, 332 kilometres north of the capital, Kampala. The area has been the site of substantial fighting during the country's 20-year civil war, which has displaced more than 90 per cent of the population.
The foundation is still awaiting final budget estimates, but the centre could cost between $250,000 and $750,000, said executive director Jenny Miller. The project is a partnership between the foundation and Athletes in Africa, an international program that helps professional athletes assist African development.
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