Sport is a common language that anyone can speak, it is a tool that unites, that knows no limits. Anyone can play basketball: wherever there is a basket, with any ball, with or without shoes, the only thing that really counts is the motivation to jump and go to the basket. Basketball is not only competition but also a tool that can easily be used to transmit culture, values and skills. Slums Dunk is a mispronunciation of the term slam dunk where slum means slum. Slums Dunk aims to improve the living conditions of children and young people living in economically and socially deprived areas of Africa.

In 2014 Slums Dunk built its first basketball court in the slum of Mathare, Nairobi (Kenya). An estimated 95,000 people live in Mathare squeezed into 1.5km, 50% of the population are young people under the age of 18 who reside in isolated conditions, with limited access to basic services such as water, electricity and sanitation. There are no other basketball courts in the entire slum. Slums Dunk has set up a mini-basketball school involving 100 children, guarantees free access to the basketball court and supports life skills education in 10 informal schools in the Mathare slum, involving about 1000 children under 15. The idea of Slums Dunk is to replicate and expand the activities in other degraded areas of Africa.