Football to Financial Freedom: Abhishek’s Journey with Enabling Leadership PLAY
On the field, he’s a natural: a vocal leader, a team player, and a footballer radiating confidence and focus. Off the field, coaching his students, he transforms into their guiding star, their loudest cheerleader, trusted friend and mentor – someone they can truly look up to. But what his students might not know is that […]
Alumni Spotlight:
The Personal Impact of Enabling Leadership PLAY on Upendra
In the sun-baked fields of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Santosh Yadav was a champion wrestler, his victories echoing in the dusty air. Two decades later, his son, Upendra, would find his own arena of glory, not on the mat, but on a different kind of pitch. Between these two tales lies a story of urbanisation, the […]
Young Dharwad Girls Champion Gender Equality In Their Communities
Basavannemma and Mallamma represent a generation advocating for gender equality, a generation that has witnessed changing times. What sets them apart is not only their observation but active participation. Hailing from the rural district of Dharwad, they are part of the Enabling Leadership’s Play program, where they learn to play football—a sport traditionally dominated by […]
PLAY Program Opens Doors for Girls to Train with Professional Footballers
Imagine being a young girl with a passion for football. What if you not only got to play the game you love but also learn crucial leadership skills through a special program? And what if this program opened doors for you to train with the coaches of your city’s official football club? In a fantastic […]
Enabling Fearless Leadership
Coaching the child-centric way “I believe that every child has a leader in them. My intention as a coach with Enabling Leadership’s EL Play program is to develop the leadership capabilities within every child by encouraging them to ask questions about challenges being faced in their communities, to stay curious about the reasons behind them, […]
Meet our Leader: Kiran
“Just For Kicks is the only program that has made me confident, because of which I’m tackling problems in my life and able to find solutions to them.”
The Game is Much More Than Play
Enabling leadership through football https://youtu.be/ZTasFHFsbe4 Owing to its focus on play, “sport for social development” has taken off in the recent past all across the globe. From children affected by war in Syria, to children in South Africa receiving crucial AIDS awareness and medical care, programs are increasingly using sports like football and basketball as […]
Kick the Ball: How a football team in a Mumbai school learns to express anger
Launched in 2011, our program EL Play works in low-income and government schools through football to build leadership skills in students. At present, the EL Play program reaches over 4000 children in India across selected schools in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and villages in Dharwad. Through this story we explore how the EL Play […]
Meet our Student Leader: Sandesh
Meet our Student Leader: Sandesh At “EL Play”, football is used to enable leadership and life-skills for children in India. Meet one of our students Sandesh, and hear about how football can be an incredible tool for learning and leadership! https://youtu.be/mKnAqKFXxqk
It Wasn’t Winning that Taught Us the Most
When we had signed our four teams up for EL Play this year, our only objective was for the kids to have fun playing. As we were a first-year team, we didn’t set very high expectations of winning football games at the EL Play League which was a part of the program. We focused solely […]
