Hi 5 Youth Foundation [Hi 5] runs a high quality, multi-year, multi-level basketball excellence program for underprivileged children called “Hope thru Hoops” – providing children an alternate pathway to succeeding in life. We provide children from marginalized section an opportunity to strive for excellence and develop character, confidence & courage, 90% of our children have experienced "winning moments" and developed instinct to make their lives better. Our 4-year rigorous program has successfully built good basketball players, great school teams and developed youth with the right values. All Hi5's tribal school children from Palghar district, Maharashtra, have gone on to join a college, who otherwise would have dropped-out or been engaged in manual labour. Our program impacts young lives in rural India from court to classroom to communities through this intense basketball training.