Empower girls in rural India to be Champions

Mann Deshi Champions aims to ensure that children, especailly girls from rural areas in India have access to sports training and sports facilities. Over the past 10 years, we have created a swimming pool, a 400 mtr track, a field, a state of the art gym and a wrestling arena in a drought prone region. 

By ensuring that children have access to exellecnt training programmes we have been able to achive 60 medal wins over the past 6 months. All the winners are girls comming from small agricultural households that reside in a drought prone region of western Maharashtra. The girls have won 29 Gold Medals, 15 Silver Medals and 15 Bronze Medals. 

We are extremally proud of the achivements being made by Mann Deshi Champions girls and want to extend our sincere thank you to our supporters and well wishers. 

Links:

• https://manndeshifoundation.org
• https://www.manndeshichampions.org
• Mann Deshi Champions Instagram

In collaboration with Georgetown University in Washington DC, we conducted a first-of-its-kind Mental Health and Strength Workshop for Sports Coaches and athletes. The sports programme works to provide rural girls with access to play sports and excel in them. Unfortunately, in rural India, there is a lack of awareness regarding what mental health is and how to address identify and approach it. 

This intervention included a 4-day intensive workshop for coaches. The workshop trained coaches on the stressors that athletes face and how to understand them better. It also included a 7-day workshop for athletes aged 13 to 25 years. 

Vaishnavi, a national-level medalist in running, stated that the workshop has helped her understand herself better and the techniques of visualisation and progressive muscle relaxation will significantly help her to mentally prepare herself for competition day.