Nola For Life continues its midnight basketball season at Kipp Central City Academy this weekend.
The program, which is in its third season, was developed by New Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrieu, in an attempt to provide young men in crime hot spots with safe recreational activities.
The Nola For Life program hopes to get to the root of New Orleans’s crime problem by investing in prevention, improving the NOPD and helping young men and women get more involved in the betterment and rebuilding of their neighborhoods.