UNITED POONA SPORTS ACADEMY
This project's parent organization is United Poona Sports Academy
It operates in India
It uses Football (Soccer)
Entered the Sport For Social Inclusion Award
More about UNITED POONA SPORTS ACADEMY
United Poona Sports Academy (UPSA) provides grassroots football training with a mission to aid underprivileged children achieve their true potential in life, helping them integrate into the mainstream of society. For the past 15 years now, the academy has used football as a medium to develop personality of children, empowering them with teachings in life skills that enable them to cope with adversity and have dreams and aspirations of their own. SPHURTI, program for rural children development, AASTHA, program for disabled children, Holistic Soccer Clinics and Junior Development Program for grassroots training are the four main programs through which the academy reaches out to neglected children from all spheres of life.
Children around the world are increasingly affected by poverty, violence, growing social problems and a lack of respect for each other in the world around them. Parents and educators everywhere are asking for help we believe that part of the solution is an emphasis on the teaching of Values. Our training environment is focused on the learning process rather than the outcome, wherein the emphasis is on individual challenge and improvement. Global values such as honesty and fair play are stressed upon and students groomed to become responsible citizens.