Dream Sports Africa
Yoga across borders. Movement that lasts and transforms.
Help local coaches bring yoga, strength, music, and joyful movement into schools and communities in Ghana and Nigeria. Through movement, young people can connect and learn, while local leaders build skills and opportunities to teach. Your gift helps DSA support that journey and the habits that contribute to physical and mental wellbeing.
Why this matters
In a 2021 UNICEF/Gallup survey, about one in six Nigerians aged 15–24 reported often feeling depressed, uninterested, worried, nervous, or anxious.
Nigeria's life expectancy at birth was about 55 years in 2024.
Lead Story
From participant to leader and yoga teacher.
Castel Dombin joined Mind Yourself while studying at the University of Abuja. She returned as a Mind Yourself Mental Health Captain, helping facilitate wellbeing sessions and support other young leaders. At DSA, she learned program and finance skills alongside her movement work. She completed 50 hours of yoga teacher training and reports teaching more than 50 people through Dombin Yoga, private clients, and independent sessions. Her responsibilities grew through four DSA roles; today she serves as Finance & Admin Manager. Her journey shows how engagement can grow into education, empowerment, and employment.
Mind Yourself also worked with peer leaders at the University of Lagos, bringing movement and wellbeing conversations to two major university communities and surrounding school communities.
Explore Mind YourselfEmpower people through movement.
Choose a one-time or monthly gift, pick a preset amount or enter your own, then donate securely. Monthly giving helps DSA plan recurring sessions and support coach development.
Dream Sports Africa is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 47-3183133). Donations are tax-deductible. You'll receive an email receipt immediately after your gift is completed.
Your Donations at Work
Generous donors like you help us achieve meaningful impact across Nigeria and Ghana.
62,118+
Program Participations
18,118 Mind Yourself + 44,000+ Basketball Experience
10,000+
Supplies Distributed
Sports & fitness equipment
50/50
Gender Parity
Equal opportunities for all
~25
Paid Basketball Coaches
Over the program lifetime
Our method: Engage, Educate, Empower, Employ
DSA's 4E pathway turns a first session into lasting opportunity — we engage people through movement, educate them with skills and wellbeing, empower them to take on responsibility and lead, and help employ local coaches. Movement opens the door; people growing into leadership and work is the lasting change.
Different doors. The same 4E approach.
Basketball Experience, Mind Yourself, and community movement programs each engage people, teach skills, and develop local leaders — from classrooms to courts to community spaces.
Explore our programs
Another 4E journey
From teenage volunteer to program leader
Jessica Ohaka joined DSA at 16 as a Youth Be Active volunteer captain and grew into senior program leadership — later moving into international suicide-prevention work and founding a youth wellbeing nonprofit.
Read Jessica's story
DSA founder Chenfa Dombin teaches yoga in the U.S., including with CorePower Yoga and Yogis on the Move in Los Angeles, and brings that teaching experience into DSA — while local leaders shape and deliver the work in Ghana and Nigeria.
Help a local leader turn movement into lasting opportunity.
How far? I'm Castel, DSA's Finance and Admin Manager.
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