Heal the Hood hosts 14th Annual Hoops for the Holidays basketball game
Nov 09, 2024
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Hickory Ridge Middle School hosted a charity basketball featuring celebrities and Memphians on Saturday.
The orange team tipped off against the black team at the 14th Annual Holiday Charitable Basketball game to help raise funds for the Adopt a Family 12 Days of Christmas Program by Heal the Hood.
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The nonprofit adopts more than 200 children across the Memphis area to help grant wishes for the holiday season.
"So when you’re in a situation when you’re seeing, every day what’s happening with these kids, it puts you in a situation to say you have to do something. Either you do something or you sit back and watch nothing happen," said CEO and Founder of Heal the Hood Memphis Ladell Beamon. "And we just chose to do something about it. So our job is to be able to not only give to the kids in the form of gifts but to be able to use the gifts as a passport to go into their household and bring love and joy, inspiration.”
Coming up at 10, WREG will hear from one of the families the charity basketball game will help.