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Empowering Coaches: Mental Health First Aid Training at Slum Soccer

In an inspiring endeavor to foster mental health awareness and support, Slum Soccer recently organized a two-day Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training session from February 13th to 14th, 2024. This initiative aimed to equip 15 coaches from Nagpur and Delhi with essential skills to identify and address mental health challenges among participants aged 18 and older, as well as within their own communities. Collabora...

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Empowering Shakti Girls: Celebrating Unity, Strength, and Sportsmanship

On the vibrant day of January 28th, 2024, the heartwarming spirit of the Shakti Girls Delhi Final Tournament enveloped the community with joy and determination. Eight spirited teams, each brimming with enthusiasm, took centre stage in a celebration of empowerment and sportsmanship. This tournament, a culmination of the dedicated efforts of DHL India, marked a year-long journey of growth and resilience for 267 remarkab...

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Empowering Change: Our Journey Towards POSH Awareness

At Slum Soccer, we believe in the transformative power of football not just on the field, but also in the lives of those we reach. Today, we took a significant step forward in our mission to create a safer and more respectful environment for all our members. We conducted a comprehensive training session on Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) awareness, and we’re excited to share the insights and learnings fro...

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J U L Y 2 0 2 3 : YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM – 2023

From Players to Leaders: Empowering Youth through Leadership  “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”- Margaret Mead The ideology of changing and developing lives through football is the core of Slum Soccer’s belief system and to further it, we have devised a Youth Leadership Programme for Youth Developme...

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Karina’s story:

Kicking Barriers: Empowering Community through Football and Menstruation Education One day in Bokhara village, Nagpur, some people were askingSantosh Salame, a middle-aged man, why he was spoiling his daughter and the community by allowing his daughter to wear shorts and play football. An old wizened gentleman advised him further “You should just keep your daughter home, teach her how to cook...

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“Breaking Barriers: How Football Empowers Mantasha to Challenge Period Stigma”

Football helps Mantasha spark a conversation to end period stigma ! There is silence everywhere. Mantasha is sitting on the ground and drawing a picture of herself. She is putting a lot of effort into it, paying attention to details and colours. Once she is has finished, her slum soccer coach, Shiba tells her and her friends a story on menstruation, using Sign Language. Mantasha Ansari, a 17-years-old studen...

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Story of Yasmeen : Aiming for the stars

It is 9.30 am, Nagpur, India.  Coach Andy Hook from Scotland has called to close his strenuous morning session for players selected for Homeless World Cup 2023. All the players have just retired under the shade of the mulberry tree adjacent to Slum Soccer’s Diversity Pitch to cool down and unwind. Except one tall girl with an athletic build, who continues doing extra drills to hone her football skills on the as...

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Story of Damini: A strong advocate of Menstrual Hygiene Management

Imagine being at your uncle’s wedding and feeling strangely unwell with a stomach ache. Then, on going to the washroom, you see your undergarment soaked in blood. What would you do? How would you react? This happened to Damini Padmakar Raut, a participant in the Shakti Girls program conducted by Slum Soccer, Nagpur Growing up in Hinganghat, a small dusty village of Wardha District in Maharashtra, Damini was never...

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A determined player today is a leader with a mission tomorrow!

An inspiration, a hard worker, a role model, and an icon for equality – these are some of the things that come to mind when we see, 20 years old, Isha Sillare. Currently working as a youth coach in Slum Soccer, Isha educates hundreds of adolescent girls on life skills, gender equality, menstrual hygiene management and women’s rights. Training and support of the kind Isha provides, is crucial in empowering young...

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Slum Soccer National Inclusion Cup 2023!!

West Bengal in men and Chhattisgarh in women category lifts the National Inclusion Cup 2023. The 2023 edition of the National Inclusion Cup was organized in the home city of Nagpur after 2 years of gap due to COVID pandemic. The event was organized at the Slum Soccer Academy Bokhara Nagpur for which 24 states teams congregated to compete and carve out a brighter future for everyone.  The year-long build...

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