Three Female Ballers - Empowering Women from Continent to Continent
Three Female Ballers (F3B) is dedicated to increasing international awareness and communication between American and African teenage girls.
The New Jersey–based, non-profit organization F3B (Three Female Ballers) has successfully conducted ten annual Multi-cultural Scholar Athlete Programs, an athletic, professional development and cultural exchange program that connects teen girls in Africa with teen girls from America.
Each year, between the end of June and mid-July, F3B sponsors two week-long basketball clinics for 40 young women in Africa, with assistance from a team of seven high-school girls who are sports inclined and academically well grounded.
F3B selects high-school female basketball players from Newark, Jersey City, and South Orange, New Jersey, and Manassas, Virginia, to travel to various countries across the African continent to conduct the program.
The American F3B youth serve as junior coaches, players and cultural ambassadors to the African girls who participated in the clinics. Besides sharing their basketball skills, the F3B adult professionals help organize professional development workshops, focused on leadership skills, cultural communication and HIV/AIDS awareness. They also introduce the African and American girls to the possibility of careers in foreign service, engineering, and wireless technology.
A highlight of the program in recent years came when Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the country's first female president, addressed the F3B team during a closing ceremony recognizing the achievements of the Liberian girls who participated in the clinic in 2007.
"I am very, very pleased that you can do this to exchange views, to build networks of friendship and share talents and skills," said President Johnson – Sirleaf to the American group. “We don't even know how to express our appreciation."
The New Jersey–based, non-profit organization F3B (Three Female Ballers) has successfully conducted ten annual Multi-cultural Scholar Athlete Programs, an athletic, professional development and cultural exchange program that connects teen girls in Africa with teen girls from America.
Each year, between the end of June and mid-July, F3B sponsors two week-long basketball clinics for 40 young women in Africa, with assistance from a team of seven high-school girls who are sports inclined and academically well grounded.
F3B selects high-school female basketball players from Newark, Jersey City, and South Orange, New Jersey, and Manassas, Virginia, to travel to various countries across the African continent to conduct the program.
The American F3B youth serve as junior coaches, players and cultural ambassadors to the African girls who participated in the clinics. Besides sharing their basketball skills, the F3B adult professionals help organize professional development workshops, focused on leadership skills, cultural communication and HIV/AIDS awareness. They also introduce the African and American girls to the possibility of careers in foreign service, engineering, and wireless technology.
A highlight of the program in recent years came when Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the country's first female president, addressed the F3B team during a closing ceremony recognizing the achievements of the Liberian girls who participated in the clinic in 2007.
"I am very, very pleased that you can do this to exchange views, to build networks of friendship and share talents and skills," said President Johnson – Sirleaf to the American group. “We don't even know how to express our appreciation."
