Striving for Full-Potential: Building Confidence Through Sport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz5lJCCs4t8&list=PL5HeEh6WFMMKbljO4xZnPi3XH2sTghSTC&index=8 A Challenge:Girls face significant challenges in relation to access to sports rooted in social norms of fears that sports grounds are not safe for girls. This greatly impacts the self-confidence of girls. One of Thamarai’s first projects in Annai nagar was to create an enabling environment for sports so that parents would be at…
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Integrated Learning Space for 6th to 9th Standard
This new school year we looked to begin to more intentionally incorporate into our after-school project in Annai Nager a more holistic, experiential and integrated approach to learning. In Mother’s words, each day for children holds the possibility of so many learning opportunities; “varied, complex, full of unexpected experiences, problems to be solved, clear and striking…
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Thamarai Health and Well being by Carla & Muthu
These past few months, Thamarai Health & Wellbeing Project has continued Yoga & Health Education programs to women’s groups and school children and held monthly health care camps where visiting therapists offered natural therapies at the village centre. 50 women have completed a year long yoga training program in 3 locations and 50 teachers participated…
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Gender Equity Through Sports
Sports is everyday… and so is gender equity Sports programs continue to develop with coaching in place for girls and boys as the first activity everyday in after school. Volleyball, football and frisbee In recent newsletters we have highlighted the encouragement of gender equity in sports with many more girls are now in daily sports…
Football update from Kavi
Learning to be organised and responsible The Thamarai U14 football team practices respect for their environment with every training session beginning with the players leading a cleanup of the football grounds, making sure any papers or rubbish have been cleaned away before practice begins. Recently, the team self organised postponing a practice session in order…
Unity and Equity through Frisbee
Introduction: Ultimate Frisbee is designed to promote unity and equity as teams cannot compete unless they have a balanced number of boys and girls on each team. It is designed to build gender equity and confidence in the children. Thamarai has partnered with “Play equity” to start a program in Annai Nagar village. Learnings From…