Celebrating Changemakers!
Come join us as we Celebrate Changemakers!Where: Karnataka Sangha Hall,
Matunga Station Road (West)
When: Sunday, the 21st of July at
2:30 pm
Joining us will be Mallika Sarabhai, dancer and activist, Anshu Gupta, founder of Goonj, and Vivek Sawant, the Managing Director of Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited.
We look forward to having you with us!
April 12 Workshop in Mumbai
The Youth Venture commmunity came together to explore team management, time management, and sustainability through games and discussions. Venturers met with two guest resource people, Prema Gopalan (an Ashoka Fellow who runs Swayam Shikshan Prayog) and Shubanghi Swarup (an UnLtd India investee who leads Hamara Footpath).
The Youth Venture Process
Youth Venture supports young people between the ages of 15- 24, to lead the change that they want to see in our society today. We do so by supporting them in starting a venture in any issue they feel passionate about. This support entails seed funding, capacity building workshops, exposure visits and networking.
The second cycle began in June 2008 and proceeds with 35 venturers pursuing an issue they are passionate about. Click on the link "meet our venturers" to read more about the stories of our changemakers.
If you feel strongly about a social issue and and have the courage to do something about it, email us at tvipin@ashoka.org or call us at 91-9821877975.
The second cycle began in June 2008 and proceeds with 35 venturers pursuing an issue they are passionate about. Click on the link "meet our venturers" to read more about the stories of our changemakers.
If you feel strongly about a social issue and and have the courage to do something about it, email us at tvipin@ashoka.org or call us at 91-9821877975.
Ashok.. Promoting education through football
Ashok Rathod, 20 Cuffe Parade.
"I want to build a sports team in my community, where kids can share their problems, learn important lessons in life, educate themselves, etc; through their common passion- football. "
I am a twenty year old from a community which gives education the least importance. The friends that I have grown up with left studies after they failed in fourth grade or fifth grade. They started earning and would get a good salary home. They were satisfied with that. Half of the salary they would give home and other half they would keep for themselves. They started smoking, drinking, playing bets. I tried to take them off a lot but they would not listen to me. When their family came to know that they thought to marry them off. They thought marriage would make them serious. So they married at 18-19 year of age. Today one of them is 22 and has two kids. But they still drink and smoke.
When I saw some drop outs from my community, lazing around, I thought they would too go the same ways like my friends had gone. And so I resolved to do something for them when they were still very young. And so I talked to a dozen of them and asked if they wanted to learn football. Of course they wanted to. Once they were hooked, I introduced layers of education and other activities.
My innovation is primarily hopping to dissolve ‘‘ignorance ’’. In my community, ignorance is what causes lack of education, and ignorance is also what causes child mar
riage. My community elders take their sick kid to a saint first to cure the illness than to an efficient doctor. I want to fight against this. Sport is what will gain a kid’s attention. My other struggle is, to create awareness around sports. The community where I come from does not give any importance to sports while bringing their child up. I feel sports need to be there in each and every kid’s life. As a kid, I use to participate in the camps given by the ngo Magicbus. I have seen magnificent changes in myself through sports. And therefore I thought of foot ball to gather my kids.
"I want to build a sports team in my community, where kids can share their problems, learn important lessons in life, educate themselves, etc; through their common passion- football. "
I am a twenty year old from a community which gives education the least importance. The friends that I have grown up with left studies after they failed in fourth grade or fifth grade. They started earning and would get a good salary home. They were satisfied with that. Half of the salary they would give home and other half they would keep for themselves. They started smoking, drinking, playing bets. I tried to take them off a lot but they would not listen to me. When their family came to know that they thought to marry them off. They thought marriage would make them serious. So they married at 18-19 year of age. Today one of them is 22 and has two kids. But they still drink and smoke.
When I saw some drop outs from my community, lazing around, I thought they would too go the same ways like my friends had gone. And so I resolved to do something for them when they were still very young. And so I talked to a dozen of them and asked if they wanted to learn football. Of course they wanted to. Once they were hooked, I introduced layers of education and other activities.
My innovation is primarily hopping to dissolve ‘‘ignorance ’’. In my community, ignorance is what causes lack of education, and ignorance is also what causes child mar
riage. My community elders take their sick kid to a saint first to cure the illness than to an efficient doctor. I want to fight against this. Sport is what will gain a kid’s attention. My other struggle is, to create awareness around sports. The community where I come from does not give any importance to sports while bringing their child up. I feel sports need to be there in each and every kid’s life. As a kid, I use to participate in the camps given by the ngo Magicbus. I have seen magnificent changes in myself through sports. And therefore I thought of foot ball to gather my kids.
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