Twelve year old Krishnaveni resides in Kothur village in Andhra Pradesh.  Both her parents are daily wage laborers.

Krishnaveni was not very excited when the local Community Sports Coaches, Laxmi and Sandeep, got a bag full of handballs, footballs, cones and markers to the village. It was only when the ball was thrown up in the air, the excitement began. She now plays with 32 other children in a vacant ground half a mile away from her village. She says “earlier, 3 to 4 girls used to assemble and play skipping but now we have a big group…..I love to play handball and other children enjoy playing relay ball games and are fond of the action song – Bolo Bolo kitne …“.

The sports for development sessions conducted by Magic Bus have given new meaning to her life- she now understands the value of a good education, and realizes that her ambitions do not need be limited to the unskilled labor that her family members have been performing for generations. Even though she has to walk six miles every day to get to school and back, she still enjoys going to school and wants to become a teacher.  She also dreams of representing the district and state in handball tournaments.

Your donation, Dennis, will enable Magic Bus to provide a year of sports sessions for Krishnaveni, and allow her to reach her full potential.

Sudhakar Laluji Rathod, a 23 year old youth, hails from Pittiguda village in Maharastra. His village is located in one of the most backward regions of Chandrapur district, and faces an acute scarcity of drinking water.

Sudhakar is one of the first batch of Community Sports Coaches trained by Magic Bus to deliver weekly Sports for Development sessions to the children in his village. After completing his training, Sudhakar has been using Sport as the enabler for development of his village. After conducting an informal needs assessment in his village, Sudhakar realized that water shortage is the greatest problem being faced by his community. In his weekly sports sessions, Sudhakar uses play activities to educate children on the importance of reducing water wastage. He has also taken on the task of mobilizing the villagers to advocate with the government for installing more water taps in his village.

Your donations, George, Eileen Leo, Susan, Dwayne and Terese and Peter, will enable SeeYourImpact partner, Magic Bus, to provide Sudhakar with the mentoring and guidance necessary to empower the children in his village.

Thank you for helping Sudhakar mobilize the community to come together to solve their common problems.