• Basketball without Borders Asia (Shanghai, China, June 8-11).
• Basketball without Borders Europe (Vilnius, Lithuania, June 30-July 3).
• Basketball without Borders Americas (San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 17-20).
• Basketball without Borders Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa, September 6-10).

Basketball without Borders is a global basketball development and community relations outreach progam that promotes leadership, education, sportsmanship and healthy living, with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.

Since the inaugural camp in 2001, Basketball without Borders has featured more than 120 NBA players, coaches and team personnel from 29 different teams as camp coaches for the more than 700 young athletes from nearly 100 different countries and territories. The NBA family and the campers have traveled more than 85 million miles and logged more than 1 million hours of community service participating in Basketball without Borders.

In addition, the program has reached countless others through its extensive community relations outreach efforts on each continent. Since the first Basketball without Borders in 2001, the program also focuses on education, grassroots basketball development and production donation, and has partnered with UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, to incorporate seminars on HIV/AIDS education and prevention for camp participants.

The camps are highlighted by extensive community outreach activities focusing on HIV/AIDS awareness, education and grassroots basketball development. Efforts culminate with an NBA Cares Legacy Project, the NBA’s premiere community initiative, which includes the creation of safe places where kids and families can live, learn or play. The NBA and FIBA also donate products, such as basketballs, rims and sporting goods to local basketball federations and communities.

As part of Basketball without Borders, five Learn & Play Centers have been opened outside the United States and Canada. Centers are located at Vila Olimpica de Jornalista Ary de Carvalho in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Escuela Benjamín Zorrilla Distrito Escolar in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Hui Lei School in Beijing, China and at Ithuteng Trust and at SKY Trust in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Each Basketball without Borders camp features current and former NBA players and team personnel -- acting as camp coaches -- and unites young athletes from across each continent to take part in basketball instruction and competition. Each of the NBA players serving as coaches is assigned to a team and works with the campers individually.

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) selects the young players (ages 19 & under) based on their basketball skills, leadership abilities and dedication to the sport of basketball. To promote friendship and diversity, the campers are divided into teams without regard to race and nationality. They share living quarters with their new teammates and participate in daily seminars that promote education, leadership, character, healthy living and HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.

The inaugural Basketball without Borders took place in July 2001. NBA legend Vlade Divac and Toni Kukoc of the Milwaukee Bucks, together with five other NBA players from the former Yugoslavia, re-united to work with 50 children from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia and Montenegro at La Ghirada in Treviso, Italy.