Former UNC Player Damion Grant Gives Back to His Homeland

Posted Jul 11, 2014
Damion Grant, a former UNC men’s basketball center and member of the 2005 national title team, has just returned from a week-long mission trip in Jamaica to run an annual basketball camp. Grant, now in his second year as founder, conducted the camp and donated almost 150 pairs of shoes, along with socks, soccer and basketball jerseys to camp participants and their families. (Chapelboro.com)

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