Venue
Crystal Ball Room, Magrath Hotel, 30 Magrath Road, Bangalore-25
Organizers
About Magic Bus India Foundation
Magic Bus India Foundation is an organization working to impact the areas of Education, Health, Gender and Livelihood since 1999. Magic Bus is Asia’s largest mentoring organization that is working to move some of the world’s poorest children from poverty. Currently, they reach out to 2,50,000 children and 10,000 youth across 11 states in India in more than 5,500 marginalised communities using sports as a medium.
Objectives of the conference
- To position sport as a mainstream development tool and approach, especially in the domains of education, health, youth development and social inclusion.
- To provide an interactive forum for national and regional sport for development practitioners.
- To include government, corporates, donor agencies, and civil society in the sport for development dialogue.
- To showcase national and global sport for development resources, models, impact and best practices.
Expected outcomes
- Sport for development is recognized as a valuable development tool and accepted by policy makers, corporate houses, donor agencies and civil society partners.
- The importance of sports in improving social outcomes like education, health outcomes, children and youth empowerment, social inclusion is realized; and its role is identified as something that goes far beyond a pastime or a competitive activity.
- Establishing a functional network of institutions familiar with sport for development who would be willing to integrate sports as a medium to bring effective social change in their regular operations.
Contact details
Magic Bus India State Office - Bangalore
No. 501, Ist floor, 7th Main, 7th Cross,
Above Punjab National Bank,
J.P. Nagar 3rd Phase,
Bangalore- 560 078
Tel: +91 8026581225
Email: info@magicbusindia.org
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