Pascal Siakam has become a star forward with the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a young player in Cameroon with a lot of talent and potential, Siakam’s father always told him not to take a career in basketball for granted. Though things worked out for the two-time all-star and NBA champion, he’s paying it forward with a scholarship program for young people coming from Cameroon to the University of New Brunswick (UNB).
Siakam and his PS43 Foundation are teaming up with UNB’s McKenna Institute and the River Philip Foundation. Together, they’re putting $200,000 towards a new tech-focused scholarship to students from Siakam’s birth country of Cameroon.