Homelessness - A Major Growing Concern
India, the second most populous nation in the world, has a population of well over a billion people. About 170 million of these people live on the streets with no place to call home and accounts for 17 percent of the world’s entire slum-dwelling population.
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The Indian government has been able to do little to tackle the problem of homelessness. This is where Slum Soccer strives to make a difference by reaching out to the Indian homeless using football as a tool for social improvement and empowerment.
To support and empowering the homeless.
The Homeless World Cup is an annual football tournament organized by the Homeless World Cup Foundation, a social organization which advocates the end of homelessness through the sport of association football.
HOMELESS WORLD CUP, 2018
Venue: Mexico
Period: November, 2018
Indian Contingent:
Key Objectives
Key Activities
Participant Profile:
As Mandated by Homeless World Cup Foundation, the participant should meet the following criteria:
Before world cup a month long practice camp is held at Nagpur. This year the camp is slated to take place in October-November under the supervision of Scottish coach Mr. Andy Hook, who was also an ex-director of football at Homeless World Cup.
Also three training camps, of 10 days each, are going to be held prior to the departure for HWC.
Not only the participants are given free training but also the cost of their travel and accommodation are taken care of by us.
Diving into Slum Soccer
Slum Soccer is a FIFA - awarded Football for Development organization that uses football as a tool to educate, empower and provide opportunities to diverse and underprivileged communities throughout India. Founded in 2001, Slum Soccer started with the simple idea that football promotes participation, inclusion, and unity. Today, we work with thousands of children and youth from underserved communities to increase participation in sports while creating a platform to explore social issues such as gender equality, health, education, leadership, and communication.
Through our programs, we are empowering participants to improve their conditions and strengthen their communities using sports education to drive impact.
It is a registered society and trust under the Bombay act and societies registration act Mumbai. 1860 The organisation has both FCRA and 80G and also approved by Maharashtra Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
Intriguing Story of Slum Soccer
Slum Soccer was founded in 2001 by Vijay Barse, a retired sports teacher in Nagpur. Since his work was not making a huge impact on the society as a whole, he was not satisfied with it. Being a sports teacher, he knew how sports can inculcate life skills and morals into someone. It was then, through football, he reached out to children living in slums and redirected their energies from wrongdoings, including theft, addiction, etc to football.
That’s how Slum Soccer came into being.
His primary influence in starting the initiative was when he coached a few children in the nearby slums to play football.
He observed that these children would gather every weekend just for the love of football. He coached about a dozen kids in the neighbouring playground and was able to see how these kids came together to learn a new sport.
He could see that the children liked having a purpose and were only too happy to find someone who could guide them. This was when he realised that football could be the means to transform the children living in the slum.
Zopadpatti football, as it was dubbed in its initial days, aimed at bringing in youngsters from underprivileged and difficult backgrounds such as drug abuse, anti-social activities, poverty, social alienation, and personal struggles.
What started as a simple weekend session coaching initiative is now an organisation with fledged football coaching camps, educational and healthcare workshops.
Today, Slum Soccer has seven programmes and has had an impact on nearly 70,000 children across six states in the country, in the past 10 years.
Societal development programmes is bringing a positive influence among men, women and children in over 63 districts around the country.
Focus Areas
Focus areas of work include:
Rewarding Programmes
They started various other rewarding programmes for the little magical wonders.
Program for young kids (Std. 3rd and 4th) using football based games to improve academic skills (specifically Math and English), apart from inculcating sports as a way of healthy life and imparting other life skills
Program for adolescent girls with specially designed activities and games (using football) to teach them about MHM and associated topics
Program focused on providing a safe environment and space for children to
come together and play football and learn life skills
Various themed tournaments, providing a platform to demonstrate skills while
bringing together people from diverse strata of society with a purpose
Using football as a means to bring girls together and help them
develop an identity and self-confidence. The platform is utilized to
impart knowledge on various topics viz. women’s rights, nutrition,
women’s health and so on.
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