Making constructive choice through sport
This project's parent organization is Dream A Dream
It operates in India
It uses Football (Soccer)
Entered the Sport for Quality Education and Employment Award
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Sport is a powerful medium to challenge the social issues. Our After School Life Skills Programme through Football uses football as a medium to empower young people to overcome adversity. Adversity can be of many kinds – abuse, abandonment, experiences of crime, extreme poverty, poor care, poor nutrition and/or violence.
Overcoming Adversity is our focus because we believe the key to stem the damage from adversity and turn the curve towards normal child development is life skills and that lack of life skills is one of the most critical gap areas stopping young people from making healthy choices and becoming productive, contributing members of society.
Keeping in mind an understanding of how children engage in learning and how children develop insights, pay attention, learn to concentrate – the session is designed to create the best learning environment for the child.
Structured sessions are taken from the curriculum and each session is designed around a particular life skill such as problem-solving, interaction with one another, managing conflict, etc. Unstructured sessions give freedom to a facilitator to be innovative, try some of their own ideas, and be flexible and sensitive to