Jack Whitehead was named a director on the board of Hoops Care International (HCI). HCI’s charter is to provide opportunities for the youth of Ghana to develop leadership skills, healthy lifestyles, work ethics, commitment, honesty and integrity through sport, using basketball as the medium.

I have been fully committed to helping to uplift the great youth of Ghana as best I can by providing scholarship opportunites to those that ordinarily might not receive that chance. To date we have raised over $110,000 in scholarship funding. We are turning a new page in this book with the creation of HCI. At HCI we are establishing the foundation for the future through improvements in nutrition, education, commerce and athletics.

Please take time to visit us at  http://hoopscare.org/ . We are in need of many things such as computers, basketballs and sneakers. On our agenda for this year is a basketball clinic that we would like to be conducted by college coaches in the USA and also the creation of an internet cafe in our office in Cape Coast, Ghana.

Contact me if you would like to participate in either endeavour in any way possible. If your a coach all I can say is that we have some very good prospects in camp now and a trip to Ghana would really be worth your time. The internet cafe is going to be a vehicle that will enable us to become self reliant and generate much needed income in addition to teaching our kids entrepreneurship.

I can be reached at jwhitehead@runhouse.net or 215.432.4443