Make a Sustainable Place to Play in the City

Outdoor School’s’s goal is to get 2.7 million girls back in school.

Football is the big reason why girls will come back to play.

Outdoor School is designed to enable girls to learn sustainable enterprise skills they need to become entrepreneurs in the city. 

Mumbai. Bengaluru. Goa. 

Football > School > Enterprise.

Outdoor School takes place outside in football pitches in India’s cities. 

Seven hours a week, during school hours, girls learn sustainable enterprise skills outside and play football. 

Outdoor School is designed to deliver to young people, outside, offline, online, in football pitches allocated to schools. 

Outdoor School delivers continuously to young people if schools are open or closed. Learning outside in the city reinforces Sustainability Skills Content meaning and the urgency of sustainable enterprise action to take on Climate Change. 

Millions of adolescent girls have dropped out of school across India due to the pandemic. 

Schools have still not reopened and girls are unable to go back to school. Even if schools do re-open, there is a chance they could close again.

Outdoor School is a blended offline-to-online skills education program designed to get millions of adolescent girls back in ‘school’ and equip them with 21st Century sustainable enterprise skills they need to become sustainable entrepreneurs, problem-solving in the city. 

Problem-solving for Climate Change AND working to make cities Sustainable Cities for everyone. 

Outdoor School begins by telling everyone about it. 

With state and city government partnerships in place, Outdoor School begins in football pitches in the new academic year. 

Encouraging girls to sign up, Play City TV runs across the cities on multiple channels while Going to School football coaches pitch directly to young people in communities, enrolling them in the opportunity to come out to play and learn. 

Football first, Outdoor School kicks off with a chance to play. 

Going to School football coaches enroll girls in the program and teach football three hours a week. Attendance and football skills learned each week are tracked through an APP with unique participant IDs.

Outdoor School takes place outside. 

Going to School teams bring backpacks of skills content to football pitches so girls can learn outside. Backpacks hold graphic novel adventures featuring hero stories of young women sustainable entrepreneurs. 

Offline and outside, girls explore up-cycled, assembled sustainable scrapbooks that teach life skills and give them an experience of DIY, taking action to learn sustainable entrepreneurial skills where they live by completing outdoor skills projects. 

Girls learn outside, offline AND online.
Girls learn digital, life, STEM and sustainable enterprise skills through an APP and digital channel content, a Youth Skills Channel open to everyone. 

Girls will be able to access the online skills curricula through mobile phones and laptops brought to the pitch by Going to School teams, who facilitate the girls’ learning journey offline and online. Technology delivers content AND tracks location, attendance and skills acquisition outcomes. 

The Outdoor Sustainable Enterprise School for Young Women. 

Young women enrolled in Outdoor School, who are age 16-17, in Grade 12, have the chance to enroll in a specific school-to-enterprise program. They get the chance to visit sustainable entrepreneurs in the city to get a first-hand experience of their sustainable enterprise in action. 

In the next three years, the outdoor school for girls will ensure 2.7 million girls go back to ‘school’ in a safe, outdoor learning environment. 

We will deliver a continuous multi-grade, outdoor school football-skills-at-school program that enables girls to learn the skills they need to transition from school to sustainable enterprise of their choice after the age of 18. 

In partnership with city & state governments, we will deliver a program that is resilient, functioning irrespective of school closure AND proves a point, sustainably secure a model that can be replicated across India. 

We will get the word out, communicate our success on digital, TV, Youth Channels, reaching millions of young people AND encouraging new state and city governments to join the game.