Covid 19 spread halts basketball programme at Hope Valley Experimental

Students at the Hope Valley Experimental Primary School in Kingston were working towards creating a basketball team when they were hurried off court by the arrival Covid 19 coronavirus in Jamaica. The Southern Basketball Conference in collaboration with the National Intergrity Action (NIA) had donted basketball equipment to Hope Valley and were also teaching the rudiments of the game to students, when the national closure of schools occured on March 13.

Hope Valley bears the unique stature of catering to both able bodied and physically-challenged students in the same class room and this was also being translated on to the basketball courts. Special Projects Manager with the South Basketball Conference Calvin Martin says teaching the game to both the able bodied and the physically-challenged is part of their aim to spread the sport island-wide.

The programme geared towards the promotion of basketball in  primary schools across the island was carried out in Manchester, St Elizabeth, St Thomas and Kingston before the coronavirus struck.
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