Dream After School Life Skills through Sports
This project's parent organization is Dream A Dream
It operates in India
It uses Football (Soccer)
Entered the Sport for Education Award
More about Dream After School Life Skills through Sports
Dream A Dream is a registered trust empowering over 50,000 young people from vulnerable backgrounds since 1999. Currently, we work with 8000 young people referred from 24 NGOs, train over 500 educators and sensitize over 2000 volunteers through Life Skills Development model. .
The world today is changing at a frantic pace and requires very different skills to succeed. Young people who come from adversity - neglect, abuse, lack of love and care, rejection - it becomes doubly difficult to adapt to the fast changing world. We use the powerful medium of sports to help them develop the skills to think creatively, solve problems, manage conflict, overcome difficulties, learn to work with teams, take initiative and build empathy. This will help them negotiate their way through poverty and make healthy life choices.18 graduates from the program work as facilitators.
Young people who have developed life skills choose to not dropout and stay in school, choose to attend school regularly, are able to negotiate with their families about completing education, able to better handle bullying, choose to take initiative in school and take on leadership roles and are more confident of their choices