The OFoundation was created to help provide opportunities via education, sport, and the arts.
The OFoundation is a 100% volunteer led Boston based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. We are committed to providing opportunities where they are scarce. Currently our efforts have been focused in Haiti. There are not many places left on earth that have fewer opportunities. There is a massive (11 million) young and strong population being ignored internationally.
MEET ERIC
Coach Eric Wilson has been involved with rugby for the last 20 years. His rugby career started in college at Plymouth State University. Wilson was one of two PSU ruggers selected to a national camp tour during his senior season.
He then won a D3 men’s club national championship in ’07 with the Boston Irish Wolfhounds, playing mostly inside and outside center.
Wilson began coaching at Lasell College and has also worked with Babson College and Curitiba Rugby in Brazil.
In the fall of 2017, Coach Wilson began traveling to Haiti to assist with hosting and planning basketball camps. During this time, he learned how prevalent rugby was in the Caribbean, except for in Haiti. Non-profit, OFoundation was created shortly afterwards, to help create and fund both men’s and women’s national Haitian rugby teams — an initiative titled Rugbi Ayiti.
OFOUNDATION PROJECTS
Creating National Rugby Sevens Program
We are developing both a men’s and women’s national sevens program in Haiti. Our first official season in the Caribbean was in 2024 in the South Western city of Jeremie. Over 20 coed athletes participated in the 7 week season. The Haitian diaspora also has competed in the US and have international short term goals.
Sports Camps
For the last four years, OFoundation founder Eric Wilson has been fundraising tours from the US to Haiti to host sports camps. The young attendees received instruction from some of the countries most successful athletes. They are also fed, and some of the most needy received footwear/apparel.
2020 COVID-19 Prevention
There was a request received from our ground team to educate and prepare rural northern Haitian communities for the incoming spread of COVID-19. We responded by providing water receptacles, soap, masks, and gloves to multiple villages.
Basketball Sneaker/Apparel Donation Drive
Every basketball season the OFoundation collaborates with different local organizations and schools to collect new or slightly worn basketball sneakers, shorts, jerseys, balls etc. These donations are collected, inventoried, and then matched to young athletes in need. We ship the apparel to Haiti where our security ensures accurate and safe delivery. All athletes who were given donations are catalogued so we can anticipate when they’ll need another pair of sneakers.
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