Empower girls in rural India to be Champions

Mann Deshi Champions provides an opportunity to play sports and bring a smile on children’s face. It’s not just about a competition it’s an opportunity to play, make friends, build a confidence and sense of self-esteem.

In a world where a child’s biggest burden is to bear the weight of her schoolbag and the biggest worry is to study, play and to manage to eat three meals a day. Asmita on the other hand has to carry the weight of the household and has to worry if she would be able to provide even one square meal a day to her sick mother.

12 years old, Asmita has to shoulder such responsibilities that no child of this age should ever be concerned about. Her day starts at 3 am in the morning. The time usually spent by children daydreaming and building their own little fairy tales is the time which Asmita is jarred into the harsh reality where she builds a brick fort by keeping the hot, newly made bricks one after the other in such a tight formation that there is no room for light or dreams to penetrate through. Her work consists of catching the newly made bricks thrown at her and then lining them up .It’s almost like playing ball but here there is no room for mistakes for if she drop the bricks, she either faces the danger of injuring herself or faces the wrath of her father provided of course that the fatal smoke constantly being brewed up underneath the factory doesn’t get to her first.

It would be pretty evident that poverty is the reason for Asmita’s hardships but more than that it’s love. Love for her sick mother. The mother, who In order to provide for her family has sacrificed her life to hard labor and has exerted herself so much that now she fights such illness which she doesn’t even know the name of. This illness has been a curse upon her entire family because no matter how much they work , they never seem to pay off the medical bills .It is in this time that Asmita and her family have to leave their home in the village and work day and night in the brick factory. Asmita along with her home has to also sacrifice her school and her wrestling practice of Mann Deshi Champions for days to end. But despite all this she is passionate, about her studies as well as wrestling and never gives up on it. Her family, despite their condition support her full heartedly for they want to see their little daughter make a name for herself for they know she has the potential .The daughter too wants to live up to their expectations and her only dream is to be capable enough to provide and fulfil each and every desire of her parents .Therefore along with every responsibility that has been thrusted on her , she dreams of being a national level wrestler and works towards fulfilling this dream whenever she can. the coach of Mann Deshi, the organization who provides her with economical as well as infrastructural support also has a lot of faith riding on her. Who knew that the Dangal wrestling movie will inspire 1000’s of young Asmita’s. At Mann Deshi Asmita has made new friends and she has become a role model for younger children.

Today with your support children like Asmita has found the identity and a smile on their faces. Asmita is dreaming of becoming a world-class wrestler and for that she is ready to work hard and do whatever it takes.