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OUR STORY

Equipped 4 Life is a 501c3 that was founded by Calvin Belmonte-Ryu in 2016. As an athlete who was always playing a sport growing up, Calvin couldn't imagine life without sports. This drove him to start Equipped 4 Life...to bring the joy of sports to as many kids as possible.

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In 2019 Jackson Landa, also a Bishop's 2022 student, joined Equipped 4 Life as a co-founder. He believes firmly in Equipped 4 Life’s mission and has helped to distribute and collect equipment from all over San Diego.

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In 2024, Mackenzie & Harper, as 5th and 3rd graders, joined the cause.  While they had supported Calvin's early efforts through lemonade stands, bracelet sales, etc, for their first equipment drive, Mac and Harper worked closely with the school administration, teachers and Academic Decathlete team (6th-8th graders) to collect lightly used equipment from their schoolmates.  They collected over 250 pieces of equipment, including lots of high quality baseball gloves, tennis rackets and soccer balls. The equipment was distributed through Father Joe's Village, which benefits homeless families across San Diego.

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Sports are important for mental and physical health, teamwork, staying out of trouble, and obviously they are fun. All kids should be able to experience the advantages of sports. So far, Equipped 4 Life has donated hundreds of pieces of used sports equipment and thousands of dollars of new sports equipment to kids at boys and girls clubs. 

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We have done 5 distributions of sports equipment and donated over $10,000 of used and new sports equipment to local boys and girls club.
 

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