Bombali District Basketball Association

12/11/2022

THE MAKENI 3×3 FEMALE BASKETBALL SERIES CONTINUES

The Makeni 3×3 Female basketball weekly series continues in week 2 at the Wusum Field Basketball Court on today's date (12th November 2022).

It's a tight encounter, as both teams go all the way to the fourth quarter wherein Team White Ladies narrowly won 17points against Team Black Ladies to 16points.

However, Kadiatu Jalloh fondly call K2 won the MVP with a whooping twelve points and a joint rebounds of five with Aminata S. Koroma as the big lady of the day.

Week-1

Team White Ladies 20pts
Team Black Ladies 16pts

Week-2
Team White Ladies 17pts
Team Black Ladies 16pts

This is a series for every Saturday and at the end of the month, the champion is pronounced, and every week the MVP carries home a cash prize.

Mahamood Fofana

11/05/2022

Updates...

The remaining Le. 2,496,000

1. Yellow Paints (4gallons) Le. 760,000
2. Green Paints (7gallons) Le. 1,330,000
3. Rollers (6) Le. 60,000
4. Petrol (4) Le. 55,000

Total: Le. 2,210,000
Balance. Le. 286,000

The next move is to paint the remaining floor.

©Mahamood Fofana

05/05/2022

Work in progress at the Makeni Wusum Field Basketball 🏀 court.

As it was stated, this is the first phase of the court's project which is to get the floor paved and paint.

2nd trench of contribution for the Court refurbishment.

1. Mr Fornah. 2,000,000
2. Mr Ma Lett 2,000,000
3. Sheak. 100,000
4. Ish London 2,000,000
5. Long Throw 200,000
6. Pa Alie 2gallons paints

Total Le. 6, 300,000

NOTE: money at the Bank is Le. 2,000,000 plus.

The PLUS is that the bank has service charges for the SMS and chequebook usage.

EXPENDITURE.

1. A trip sand Le. 800,000

2. Cement bag (10) Le. 1,200,000

3. Water. Le. 150,000

4. Drum to store the water rental. Le. 30,000

5. Transportation Le. 100,000

6. Labour. Le. 2, 000,000 (includes; welder, painter, silicone workmanship, the board erector and Meisner)

7. Round Pipe. Le. 300,000

8. Silicone (2) Le. 120,000

9. Oil Paints (4) Le. 760,000

10. Paintbrush (4) Le 24,000

11. Kerosene (3 litres) Le. 90,000

12. Rope for the lining Le. 30,000

TOTAL. Le. 5, 604 000

BALANCE: Le. 496, 000

Note: the Long Throw contribution is planned to be used for the opening event.

©Mahamood Fofana

14/01/2021

Bombali District Basketball Association

These are the teams registered with the Association at its jurisdiction

Bombali Teams:

1. Makeni Shooting Stars (Division A)
2. The Wolves (Division B)
3. Nado Shooters (Division A)
4. Ballers Without Borders (Division A)

The Bombali Basketball Association spearhead the district basketball affairs.

05/01/2021

The Bombali District Basketball Association

WHAT THE ASSOCIATION NEEDS TO COMPLETE THIS FIRST PHASE?

"THE FLOOR"

1. Cement (30bags) unit Le. 80,000 total Le. 2,400,000

2. Sands (1trip) Le. 800,000 (beach sands)

3. Granite stone 1trip Le. 500,000

4. Oil Paint for the floor (65- gallons) Unit Le. 150,000 total Le. 9,750,000

5. Contractor balance payment: Le. 2,500,000

Here is a list of people who have donated for the said project (Wusum Field Basketball Court)

It includes ex-basketball players both home and abroad and other stakeholders in the district so far.

MATERIALS:

1. Coman & Ish 34-bags cement
2. Idris Fornah 10-bags cement
3. Salamy Koroma aka Black Nelly 2-bags cement
4. Usman Koroma aka Excoba. 5-bags cement
5. Gabriel Williams aka Gabe. 6-bags cement
6. Sheku Turay. 2-bags cement
7. Ishmail Afolabi aka MLet. 1trip sands

NOTE: THE ABOVE MATERIALS HAD BEEN USED.

MATERIALS AVAILABLE

1. 6bags cement
2. Pledge for the 1trip granite

FINANCE IN HAND

1. Honourable Catherine Zainab Tarawallie Le. 1,000,000
2. Police. Le. 250,000
3. Abass Kamara aka Poor Man Le. 200,000
4. Young ballers. Le. 60,000
5. Nado Le. 200,000
6. Foday Macbailey- Le. $50. (When cashout is equivalent to Le. 430,000)

Total: Le. 2,140,000

Mahamood Fofana
Project Coordinator.
+232 76 589 423
Email: [email protected]

01/01/2021

Be happy, be safe and be healthy as 2020 has been a year of turbulences, especially for us at the sporting disciplines with the CoronaVirus.
With that in mind, we want to take it as the year of reflection, and build upon those hurdles and see this 2021 a year of accomplishing more basketball projects to make the game (basketball) accessible to those young people who intend to take it as a career path in this part of Sierra Leone.

On that backdrops, the executive of the Bombali District Basketball Association (BDBA) wishes its members and all a happy new year

30/12/2020

How the available finance has been spent so far?

As the previous post updated that, the contractor estimated Le. 40,000,000 and the Association received Le. 16,000,000 from the ex ballers of Makeni based in the diaspora.
The Association has Le. 750,000.

Breakdown of expenditure of the Le. 16,000,000 received.

1. Cement 75bags (Unit Le. 80,000. Total Le. 6,000,000)

2. Sands 3trips. (Unit Le. 800, 000. Total Le. 2,400,000)

3. Sands 3trips (Unit Le. 250,000 total Le. 750,000)

4. Working tools. Le. 510,000

5. FIBA rim er****on
*Poles-2 (Unit Le. 1.500,000 total Le. 3,000,000)
*Other items to build the poles, Le. 500,000

6. Miscellaneous- Le. 350,000

7. Downpayment:
*First Contractor Le. 300,000
*Second Contractor Le. 1.500,000
*Welder payment: Le. 600,000

Total spent: Le. 15,910,000

At hand with the Association

1. Le. 90,000
2. Le. 750,000
Total Le. 840,000

There are donations from both home and abroad ballers and other stakeholders. That will be updated in due time.

Mahamood Fofana
Project Coordinator.

29/12/2020

How much the Wusum Field Basketball Court Rehabilitation Cost?

Background.
The wusum field basketball court rehabilitation project came from the research/survey done by the Bombali District Basketball Association to make more basketball facilities accessible by ballers and encourage new boys and girls to choose basketball and inculcate it to the school sporting activities. On this backdrops, the Wusum field was chosen as the first to rehabilitate because it's the main and regional court if not the district.

Therefore, from this survey/research, the Wusum field projects started on the 5th December 2020.

The said project is divided into five (5) phases:

1. The floor
2. The stands
3. The Fence/mesh
5. The Floodlight

NOTE: The Contractor estimated Le. 40,000,000 for the first phase. FLOOR

The Association has Le. 750,000 in its coffer to start the project but a big boost from the Makeni ex-ballers based in Europe, USA etc who sent Le. 16,000,000 via the Makeni Shooting Stars Basketball team bank account 00 300 6041 7441 12137

Expenditure of the above Le. 16,000,000 received will be updated in due time.

Project coordinator Mahamood Fofana

28/12/2020

Updates Basketball
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The Bombali District Basketball Association in collaboration with the Makeni Shooting Stars Team is embarking on a robust rehabilitation at the Makeni Wusum Field Basketball Court.

This is in line with the District Association to make the game accessible to the young boys that have to choose the game. The entire Makeni municipality can boast of having this only facility that is up and running compared to the deplorable condition of the other facilities within the city. The Association has identified and planned to rehabilitate those deplorable courts respectively.

This is a project that is solely sponsored by the Makeni former Basketballers based in Europe (diaspora) and the Association for now, although the Association and the team have made many strives to reach other goodwill stakeholders to see these projects (rehabilitation of basketball courts in Makeni) accomplish.

The more the merrier.

*Mahamood Fofana*
+232 76 589 423