Sport for Development (S4D): Approach & Method

Magic Bus is a not-for-profit organization in India that has worked with children living in some of the

most marginalized circumstances in India for the past 12 years. Using sport and outdoors as a medium,

the organization helps children play, reflect and learn from and with each other. Beginning in Mumbai

with less than fifty children from impoverished areas in the South of the city, the programme today

reaches across 10 states in India, touching the lives of more than 213,000 children. In doing so it has

equipped 8000 young people as Community Youth Leaders, who conduct weekly sessions with these

children, thus emerging as role models in their communities.

The organization has conducted numerous trainings of Physical Education teachers, NGO staff and

youth interested in sport and development. Under the International Inspiration project funded by

UNICEF, Magic Bus trained more than two hundred Physical Education teachers from seven wards in

Mumbai; two trainings each were conducted with Physical Education teachers in Chandrapur and Delhi

and two in Andhra Pradesh. Each of these was a residential training of twenty days that built the

capacity of the teachers to develop as mentors for their students, explore various ways in which sport

can enable self awareness, empathy, as well as achieve development goals related to Education,

Health and Gender Equity.

Magic Bus has trained students of M.P.Ed, M.P.Ed, MSW’s from various universities, across India, for

e.g. LNUPE (Gwalior),Banasthali University(Rajasthan); introducing them to sports for Development,

facilitation methods and techniques, approaches to learning and ways of measuring the impacts of

their programmes.

‘Sports for Development’ (S4D) – A residential workshop organized in batches of 30 students each, by

Magic Bus will demonstrate ‘sport as a powerful medium for development’. The workshop will apply

experiential learning techniques to help you use sport effectively in a range of development related

work, whether in schools, colleges, NGOs or communities.

Duration: 8 days (Residential)

Resource Persons: The lead trainer has twelve years of experience in delivering developmental issues

by using Sport and adventure sports as the medium. The training teams have vast experience in

conducting training workshops with teachers from Mizoram, Master trainers of PYKKA, Sport volunteers

from Afghanistan and various countries of Africa and running Sport for Development courses in

academic institutions.

Workshop Content

Understanding the role and power that Sport can play globally in Development Ensuring effective learning: key elements for an effective S4D session The learner led approach: understanding the context and the learner Facilitation and Mentoring Skills

Enabling the development of Socio- emotional skills through sports

Designing an S4D session to deal with social issues like Education, Health and Gender

Connecting to a network of organizations that use Sport for Development Mock session at ground level and Indoor sessions as well

Participants

The workshop useful for teachers, coaches, Managers , Project Leaders or those who are either not using sports and wants it to incorporate in their existing work or those who use sport in any way to work with children and youth.

Dates: 11th

March to 18th

March 2013

Venue: Magic Bus Centre For Learning & Development, Village Aasrewadi, At Post Chowk, Taluka-

Khalapur, District- Raigad, Maharashtra, India - 410 206

Cost: Rs 8 ,000 per participant (Includes lodging, boarding- shared dormitory, resource material) for 8

days.

To participate, or for more details, please contact Chirag Sakhare at chirag@magicbusindia.org

You can also call Chirag Sakhare: 09321822029 or Subhomoy Bhaduri: 09320214785 or Vaibhavi:

09867667345 or Nitin Bane: 07709398768