Sportz Village Foundation launches a unique platform called “Sport for Change Dialogues”
Aims to initiate discussions around development and
sustainability for change
Sportz Village Foundation (SVF), India’s largest sports education organisation
which is empowering communities through the power of sports, has recently
launched a unique platform called “Sport for Change Dialogues”. The
inaugural session was hosted by Parminder Gill –
Co-founder and Head, Sportz Village Foundation & Chief Business Officer
Corporate and the guest was Annie
George, Sustainable Development Leader – Decathlon. The key discussion pointers of
the first episode were around the corporates approach to sustainability,
community strategy, and challenges as well as learnings from Covid.
‘Sport for Change Dialogues’ is
a unique platform aimed at initiating dialogues with leaders and
change-makers from the development and sustainability space who are driving the
change in the areas of health, education & overall development of children
and youth - through sport.
Commenting on the initiative, Parminder Gill said
“With ‘Sport
for Change Dialogues’, we want to chronicle and socialize exemplary stories,
best practices from the corporate ecosystem and civil society - that use the
power of Sport to engage children and the youth for societal transformation. In
our conversations with organizational leaders, we would like to focus on
critical issues such as business sustainability, ‘purpose before profit’, and
long-term societal impact. For our inaugural session, we are happy to share the
platform with Decathlon Sports India”
Annie George said, “I am extremely happy to be part
of the inaugural session of the Sport for Change Dialogues hosted by Sportz
Village Foundation. At Decathlon our mission is to ‘make sports accessible to
everyone sustainably’, and we feel Sport for Change Dialogues is an apt
platform to reach out to our audience to spread the message”.
In the recent past, SVF has
conducted impact evaluation studies for Decathlon’s school-based community program
to evaluate the opportunities to strengthen the program further. Under its
Sport for Change platform, Sportz Village Foundation has also created a unique
sports education curriculum designed to build the social-emotional and
leadership skills of children through sports and physical activity. This
program will get rolled out to all the schools supported by Decathlon in the
country by next year.
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