Fellowship

The fellowship is given to the promoting youths who are struggling with lacking resources and support to continue their education. With the fellowship, we aim to create a chain of youth educationists who are willing to support other similar students in their journey and educate them using sports as a medium.

Bobby Vinod Bobhate

One of our Shakti Girl project participant, Bobby age 18 years is playing football from past 4 years. She is passionate about football and actively participates in community activities. She lost her father at an early age. Her mother works as a laborer in farms and she is the sole earning member of the family. She has cleared her HSC exam in 2019-20 and aspire to complete her graduation in arts. She was not able to enroll herself because of her dire financial condition which got worse during lockdown in pandemic.

Damini Raut

Resident of a small village near Hingaghat town, Damini aspire to be government officer by clearing MPSC exams. She is one of the potential youth leaders identified during the Shakti Girls initiative because of her strong communication skill, curiosity to learn new things and active community participation. She is born in a farmer’s family. Her father is a farmer and works very hard to meet the ends for his family. Damini is pursuing her graduation in Arts. She loves to play football and very keen to engage and coach younger girls of her community.

Sejal Sonare

Sejal, 18 year old girl from Bokhara village who is playing in Slumsoccer tournaments from past 5 years and member of Shakti Girls team. She participated in Maharashtra state level school division football tournament and passionate about football. She is keen to join Railways and become an officer. She is pursuing her graduation in Arts. Her parents are laborer working in factories and road construction work. She is need of financial support to continue her studies smoothly. She is an active leader in Slum soccer’s community impact program.

Isha Silare

Isha, 19 years old, pursuing BSC in mathematics and statistics from hislop college ground. She comes from a very conservative and humble background. Her father being the only breadwinner and his meagre income made it difficult for her to continue her education. “I still remember the discussion with my father who said he won’t be able to support her education due to financial constraints” Isha said. Since I have been getting a scholarship, everything has been going smoothly. I have passed my first semester successfully. Since I require a laptop I am keeping aside some money out of my scholarship to purchase a laptop. I have been learning how to operate computers in slum soccer which is helping me create presentations for my studies in college. Isha represented her state in the School Division National Tournament. She wants to bring out girls from her communities to participate in sports as much as possible. Football has helped her learn various life lessons, and made me more resilient to face any challenges. She started engaging girls in 3 villages around her community. She engages 60 girls on a regular basis and educates them about life skills, menstrual health management, and gender equality.

Sweta Singanjude

Sweta comes from an underprivileged background who wants to clear UPSC exam. She is a 18 year old girl from the Bhandewadi community of Nagpur. She is struggling to continue her education B.A 1st year in arts due to her low financial condition. Her father works as a carpenter on daily wages. She is very dedicated to football and achieved many titles such as (best player, and scorer of the tournament) in the local football tournaments. She wants to be a national goalkeeper. We meet her as an active leaders in our Shakti Girls football session & after seeing her leadership and communication skills we involved her to conduct menstrual hygiene and football sessions in her community. She is now acting as a agent of change in her community.

Nidhi Tarare

Nidhi is 21 years old deaf girl from a very humble background from a underprivileged area of Nagpur in Raghuji Nagar. She is a deaf athlete. She recently cleared her HSC exams and took admission in B.A 1st year. Her father is a volley ball coach and mother is a house wife. Her father supports her and takes care of the entire family. They live in a small house with very less place to practice running, so she everyday practices in a local community ground. Nidhi loves playing from her childhood and started the playing football in DeafKidzGoal! Program 3 years back and has emerged as a confident leader. She represented Maharashtra as a runners up in deaf athletics competition. Nidhi wants to pursue her career in sports in government department. She is currently assisting the Slum Soccer deaf coaches during the football sessions in deaf school.

Karina Salame

Karina comes from an underprivileged background from Bhokhara slum community in Nagpur. She started playing football since her school days in Slum Soccer sessions, but left playing due to some family problems. She again recently started coming to SlumSoccer from one year now and attended the youth leadership program in which she learnt how she can use her leadership skills to motivate young girls in her community to play football. Since past 6 months she is conducting football sessions for her community children. She is a 18 year old girl struggling to continue her education due to her low financial condition. Her father & mother both are working on daily wages and cannot afford to educate her. We meet her as an active leaders in our Shakti Girls football session & after seeing her leadership and communication skills we involved her to conduct menstrual hygiene and football sessions in her community. She wants to continue playing football and reach out to many other girls from her local community.