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| (The children from our project) |
Imagine living in a community where everyday fights and violence are
common! The community in Mumbai that I live in, children start smoking and
chewing gutkha at the age as young as six or seven. Every day one can see fights
on a very big level. Everyday the cops come in our community.
All of this really affected me. Everyday I have to live in fear of
getting caught by cops or beaten by them. We were not allowed to sit down at
our own buildings or anywhere in a group. At same time, I also had the fear
that my own siblings do not get trapped or involved in these fights and
substance abuse too.
I wanted to do something about it but I had no clue what to do.
Sports have played a very crucial role in my life. It has become passion
of my life, especially football. My love for sports gave me an interesting
idea. As my SLP (Service Learning Programme) self project, I came up with
an idea of educating children through sports. As football was my passion and strength,
I came to know that these kids are also interested in sports.
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| (With my team) |
I tried to understand the problem with my project teammates. The kids in
my community have nothing to do after their school. And because of this all the
problems arise. So basically if they had any meaningful thing to do with their
time, they will stop fighting and everything else will also end.
To fill this gap, I, along with my teammates, started teaching them
football. My main purpose was to do something creative and constructive and
also to keep the kids engaged in sports so that they cannot create any
issue in community.
For the project, we gathered around 20 kids from the age group of 7 to
15yrs. We targeted this age group because they were the primary reason of
fights. I started teaching football as well as taking session on violence. We then
also started talking about nutrition and other important topics such as child
sexual abuse, alcoholism and values.
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