Synergy Production Group Announces Hoops of Hope All-Stars Tour, the World's Largest Free Throw Festival, to Raise Money for AIDS Orphans in Africa

The Hoops of Hope All-Stars Tour (www.hoopsofhopeallstars.com/) will benefit Hoops of Hope, a non-profit organization founded in 2003 by then nine-year-old Austin Gutwein. Austin was moved to action after seeing a video by World Vision, a relief organization, about a girl named Maggie from Zambia who lost both her parents to AIDS. Austin was sponsored a dollar a shot by friends and businesses to shoot 2,057 free throws on World AIDS Day, one for every child orphaned from AIDS during an average school day. Since then, Hoops of Hope events have helped fund a school, medical clinic, water system and two orphan hope centers in Zambia.