Advocacy Case Studies

India
(posted April 19, 2004)

Integrated Girl-Child Education Through Sports Concept (excerpts)
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Project Concept : Integrated girl-child education through sports.
Project implementing organizations : Grass root community based NGOs of West Bengal State of India will implement this concept.
Name of the NGO coordinating agency : Maslandapur Sarada Sevashram (MSS).
in West Bengal
Contact e-mail : mss27in@yahoo.co.in
Concept development & representing Team: Mr.Bishnu Karmakar & volunteers’ team.
Contact e-mail : indiavolunteers@rediff.com
Website: http://www.angelfire.com/co4/indiavolunteers/

Introduction (excerpts) : India, which is estimated to have some 432 million illiterate people, must give top priority to Compulsory elementary education for social and economic growth to occur. 64 per cent of India men are literate but fewer than two out of five women can read and write. About 41 percent of Indian girls under the age of 14 not attend school, said the report.

Like education, play is a child’s right. And like education, play and recreational activities have enormous potential for changing the lives of children for the better through the promotion of development and peace. Sport can teach children important values and social skills, such as cooperation, self-esteem, fair play and respect for others, as well as being good for their physical and mental development. That’s why organizations like UNICEF are increasingly using sport to help improve children’s lives.

A particularly good way of reaching out to girls as well as boys, sport can provide them with opportunities to connect with others socially, something that many girls do not enjoy because of the restrictions they face as females. When girls are given the chance to take part in sport, they can challenge the stereotypes that label them as less able than boys. Sport, like education, can help girls become equal players in society.

Project Objectives :

1. To identification of girl-child (illiterate & school drop out) from the communities and provide basic education through establishment of ‘Pre-primary’ schools in the communities.
2. To develop basic infrastructure of ‘community sports for girl child’ (play ground, gym, sports medicine & personnel) for mental, physical and physicological development of ‘Girl-child’.
3. To implement women training for create awareness of community sports and health development.
4. To organize ‘Girl-child education through sports campaign in the community for creates awareness of the community people.
5. To involve community school children in the community sports program.
6. To replicate ‘community sports for girl-child’ to different rural and urban communities through NGOs and school network.
7. To introduce micro enterprise development concept in the community for socio-economic upliftment of community women entrepreneur.
8. To develop database on community sports for girl through carry out survey.

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