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Sports for Development of Life Skills

Dream A Dream Presentation

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Few things possess more power than empowering children from vulnerable backgrounds with life

skills

Life skills provide a child with the “tools” necessary for engaging with life in a

wholesome manner

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Dream A Dream’s vision Empowering children from vulnerable backgrounds with life coping skills & at

the same time sensitizing the community through active

volunteering.

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The Big Idea

Life skills are fundamental to child/youth development, to the successful transition into adulthood and becoming fully functioning and

productive members of our society.

Conceptualizing Dream Life Skills Development Program as an intervention that supplements

regular schooling and helps Completing Education for vulnerable children

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About Dream A Dream

• 10 years old• Reach out to 2200 children through 9 NGO

Partners• A network of over 1500 volunteers• Offer 5 Life Skills programs

– Sports– Creative Arts– Adventure– Life Skills for Career Development– Mentoring

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Objectives - Dream Sports Program

• Moving beyond the child’s basic needs of food, shelter, clothing, academic education and focusing on developing life skills through the medium of sports

• Non-traditional educational opportunities • Designed to explore, innovate and build

important life skills. • Use fun and experiential mediums

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Program Structure

• Partnership model (Dream A Dream- Owner of the program, Partner NGO- giving accessibility to Children, Sporting Academy- Providing Professional Coaches) 

• Project period- Min - 3 years and max - 8 years for School going children

• Enrolment- 7 to 13 years• Sessions- 90 minutes long sessions, 2 times in a

week. Average of 60-65 sessions in a year for batch• Training coaches on Life Skills and Creative

Engagement with Children

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Children in Dream SportsYear No of

Children No OfNGO’s

Sports Offered

2003-04 12 2 Table Tennis

2004-05 32 3 TT, Hockey

2005-06 50 3 TT, Hockey

2006-07 82 4 TT, Hockey,Football, Basketball

2007-08 78 5 TT, Hockey, Football

2008-09 96 3 TT, Hockey,Football, Rugby

2009-10 650 6 Football, Rugby

2010-11 1650 13 Football Rugby

2011-12 30000 100 Football

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• Life Skills Assessment: Using 5 point Life Skills assessment Scale. Assessing children 2 times in a year (Baseline-June and End term-February)

• Coach training in Life Skills, Assessments and Creative Engagement with children

• Using existing school infrastructure for cost efficiencies

• Partnership with sports coaching academies

• Developing in-house Life Skills Sports Coach training program amongst youth

Program Innovations

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Program Impact

Dream Life Skills Assessment - Dream Sports Program 2009-10

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A sophisticated quantitative measurement, Dream Life Skills Assessment Tool, is used to assess the effectiveness of the medium in delivering life skill curriculum and to measure child’s progress on life skills parameters

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Program Delivery A Comparative Picture

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Dream Sports program impacts all life-skills parameters uniformly

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Reference school: Round Table School

average batch age – 11 years

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The Football Story

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Overall performance on life-skills parameters over a period of 3 years

In 2007 we inducted 15 children from partner NGO- Ananya in our Dream Football. 5 of the children still continue to attend the program.

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Overall performance on life-skill parameters :

Improvement in the group’s performanceon the life-skills parameters over 3 years

Year 2007• Dispersion range: Min: 1.0 ; Max: 2.2• Group average: 1.64

Year 2008• Dispersion range: Min: 2.3; Max: 3.1• Group average : 2.68

Year 2008• Dispersion range: Min: 2.4; Max: 3.7• Group average : 3.1

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Prasanna

Prasanna, 19 years old currently works as a Sports Leader in our Dream Football Program and completing his high school (Pre University Course).

To quote Prasanna, “I adore to learn about computers, reading books, playing hockey, also I want to study further.”

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Arunkumar

Arunkumar, 19 years old currently works as a Sports Leader in our Dream Football Program and plays professional Hockey

“Now, at 19, it’s my turn to ‘give back’ to nurture Dream Sports Program such that many children like me can grow up with hope and live their dream.” 

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THANK YOU

www.dreamadream.org