On Thursday 12th August, Big Bangs Australia delivered 100+ pairs of shoes to Basketball Canberra.
From their website:
Basketball ACT is supporting the FIBA Oceania ‘Soul to Sole-Our Heart to Your Feet’project. Donations of shoes(and maybe socks) helps in community and school basketball programs in Pacific countries. The countries being partnered are small in population and poor by our standards.Despite this, basketball continues to hold its own in being the preferred second sport in the Pacific. Your donation can be given to the Duty Manager at either stadium or the front office …

On the weekend of 10th and 11th July, Big Bangs Australia lent their support, expertise and sponsorship to the inaugural SABI 2010 tournament.
Teams from Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and hometown Canberra came together to celebrate the talents of Sudanese-Australian basketball!
The weekend included an All-Star Game, Dunk Contest and 3-pt shootout.
The games were all exciting and hotly contested; plenty of dunks, plenty of highlights and of course a ton of support from all of Canberra’s basketball community.
After upsetting the firm favorites Melbourne to book a spot in the grand final, the Canberra Blue …

Big Bangs Australia is very proud to be sponsoring Kalie Kamara to participate in the Canberra Institute of Technology team currently playing at the Eastern University Games.
Kalie will be writing a story about his experience at the tournament very soon.
We wish him the bets of luck, and note that he is joined by fellow Big Bangs player Felix Chan!

The team IMCC-BIGBANGS PHILIPPINES turns rags to riches as they started from nothing and end up becoming a back to back champion in the college inter-school women’s tournament here in Iligan City. Bigbangs Philippines played a vital role in this conquest for they gave the team warmed up jerseys that they used during the tournament and boost the teams confidence by beating all their opponents by a big margin.And we are proud to say that one of the players was called up to play for the UAAP,  the biggest and …

The Big Bangs France launched their activities in April 2010. After taking benefits from a tournament organized in the Alps, we sponsored two teams, boys and girls, in the inter-uni annual tournament. Great success!
The IEP boys and girls teams won their respective tournament in Strasbourg, France. The teams, led by Cesar and Domi, both member of French board, gave their maximum to beat teams like Paris, Lyon or Lille.
In spite of a difficult draw, the boys did a terrific come back to win, in a breathtaking final game, the championship …

The Big Bangs Philippines Donated 17 shirts for the Womens Basketball team of Iligan Medical Center College of Iligan City, Philippines. The team joined the 1st Womens  Basketball Tournament,  that started last November 16, 2009. At this stage,  the tournament is already in the final four round in which the IMCC Womens Team ranked number 1 in the tournament with the 4 and 0 standing after the elimenation round. We will be meeting the number 4 ranked team sometime this week. The team bearly reaches 5 ‘ 10 in height …

The Iligan Medical Center College Women’s Basketball Team will be competing in the 1st Women’s Open Basketball Tournament sponsored by the city sports commission of Iligan City.
The IMCC team had a hard time purchasing other uniforms aside from the game jersey which the school will provide, so the team opted to ask a help from BIG BANGs PHILIPPINES.
Mary Joan Clavite, Viane Lariosa, Herza Andres, JohnRey Pagaling with open arms answered the need of the Womens team of IMCC.
At around 10:30 in the morning of August 7, 2009, in the board …

Our girl Pranishka and her friends are the coordinators and creators of www.weneedbooks.org, which collects books and toys for a school in Nepal.
The Big Bangs were proud to join in, donating over 500 books and 100′s of toys!
Our congratulations to Prani and the team.  Thank you for letting us be a part of it!

Together we can
Who would have thought that a simple request for help would lead to the collection and delivery of over 500 books and hundreds of toys? The Big Bangs knew. Coming together to pack boxes upon boxes of books and toys one early Sunday morning, the Big Bangs’ donation to be sent to a school in the remote village of Ramechhap in Nepal, is yet another testament that a spark can trigger so much.
Loading the mountain of boxes into the car, the buzz of excitement was alight for we …

The following is a message from Pranishka, co-ordinator for the School’s appeal for donations:
Firstly my heartfelt thanks to you and the BIG BANG crew!! Wow! I’m totally in awe of your generosity
The power of kindness is so amazing, touching and inspirational!
The village is called Ramechhap.
Its a remote and mountainous district approximately 200km from Kathmandu..
The indigenous communities that make up this region are split to be about 60% Tamang , 30% Magar. and 10% other.
The villagers are extremely poor and underprivileged. This is a farming region where the people live …