رابطة السلة الامريكية للمحترفين تتبرع ببناء 41 مدرسة بجنوب السودان تحقيقا لحلم الراحل منوت بول.

NBA pledges to help Manute Bol’s cause in South Sudan

By CANDACE BUCKNER
Source: The Kansas City Star


Before his death last summer, former NBA player Manute Bol had a goal to build schools across his native South Sudan. On Tuesday, Bol’s vision came closer to being fulfilled.


Representatives from Sudan Sunrise, the Lenexa-based nonprofit organization that worked with Bol to fulfill mission work in his homeland, met with NBA executives in the league’s New York offices.



According to Tom Prichard, the executive director of Sudan Sunrise, the league pledged to help raise worldwide awareness and money for Bol’s mission.



“It’s a first step,” Prichard said. “The idea of building 41 schools in a country that is a brand new nation with huge needs … this is going to be a long process and long project. So I was very pleased with the (meeting’s) outcome.”

Prichard said the NBA planned to help in three ways to fulfill Bol’s legacy.



An NBA TV-produced video on the mission in Sudan will be uploaded on the NBA Cares web page with links sending viewers to the Sudan Sunrise site. The league also will publicize the school-building effort through social media and get current players to tweet the message to their millions of followers. Also, the league has plans to help the Sunrise’s fundraising efforts by donating items to be auctioned.



In terms of money, Prichard said the league probably will give Sudan Sunrise a grant this summer.



Bol, known for his 7-foot-7 slender frame during his playing days, used his celebrity and his own fortune to bring attention to the plight of the war-torn South Sudan. Bol passed away last June from diseases contacted while visiting Sudan. He was 47.