By Sushmitha | Associate Manager - Fundraising
Dear Co dreamers,
We are excited to say that our 6 young people who are part of the Life Skills through Sports programme got a life time opportunity when they were selected to participate at the FIFA Football For Hope Festival, 2014 at Brazil that run parrallel to the world cup.
Along with this report, I want to share with you a volunteer story from the Dream outdoor experiential camp, followed by a few highlights of Dream A Dream programme.
The training camp lead by two lead facilitators Nilisha and Boppana was truly amazing and definitely set a benchmark the way camps can be lead. Every detail was kept in mind at all times to create a space where each of us felt encouraged to explore and nurture ourselves of our skills and talents. It was heartening to see how young people were open to express their thoughts and ideas and take creative risks.
Every staff meeting the leads would talk about what they saw was not going good, and how we could help get the group’s energy up. Things like how zoombas (camp volunteers) have to treat young people as equal, our need to come forward in gratitude circle and show how it is not only the big things that deserve gratitude , importance to push our edge and its effects on the young people, etc. It was also good to see how zoombas and leads worked as one team and were in sync.
Jayanth (a student attending the camp) said “it is difficult to get spaces like this where we can share freely.” The grace and honesty in which he lead the workshop with his friend Rakshith where we made science models, the way he owned the group, took us step by step on how to make a rocket with simple and clear instructions was excellent. As a next activity, we had to make a solar system. He took ideas from each one of us on how we would want to do it and let us do the model.
The way Maria Pradeep (a student attending the camp) lead the workshop about life skills where he was constantly challenging the group to be together and keep calm and attentive, modified his instructions and took the group together to the goal. Had a reflection circle at the end to hear about the experience from the participants. Took what he felt was important and brought it to the group to know what others wanted to say. I was amazed to see how he had conducted the workshop and debrief of the same.
I can just go on with everything I saw, and even after so many days of camp, the memories and learning’s stay fresh. This has been one of most special camp I have attended so far.
Please scroll down to see a few pictures from the programme. We look forward for your continued support and an enduring relationship.
With Gratitude,
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