OUR MISSION
Ubumwe's mission is to use sport as a means to enhance unity among Rwandan youth while simultaneously supporting Rwandan basketball development through a series of youth activities, coaches trainings, and infrastructure rehabilitation.
OUR OBJECTIVES
1. Youth serve as leaders for peacebuilding within their communities.
2. Increased capacity of local coaches to implement effective sport for development and peace programming.
3. Development of a sustainable sport for development and peace network in Rwanda.
4. Increase the number of female participants among youth population.
OUR VISION
Creating local movement of youth leaders that will lead to a unified and better Rwanda.
Since 2010, Ubumwe has provided unity-based basketball programming for 5,000+ Rwandan youth and hosted coaching clinics for over 250+ community leaders.
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Ubumwe (unity)
Ubufatanye(teamwork)
Communication
Trust Building
Fair Play (sportsmanship)
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Respect yourself and others
Focus
Self-esteem & self-worth
Self-empowerment
Responsibility
The overall theme of Ubumwe programming is unity. To achieve unity among people, Ubumwe believes that there are character traits and skills each individual in a community must possess. We believe basketball can be a vehicle to further develop the future peace builders of our communities.
Ubumwe Principles
USI firmly believes that the youth of Rwanda have the ability to serve as peace builders in our communities. We use basketball as a tool to bring youth from all socioeconomic levels together through basketball drills and large and small group discussions, weave our Ubumwe Principles throughout our programming.
““It was not only for basketball; we learnt also how to be proud of ourselves, to have hope of the future, how youth have to participate in decision making and giving our ideas in our societies.” ”