Category: Programm

We are delighted to inform you that Mr. Owen Southgate, Founder of NYFA Sweden and FA Licensed coach educator will conduct a Facebook live session about “Football training during COVID” on 7th May (Thursday)  2020 at 04:00 pm Bangladesh time.

SHI rugby players and youth leaders of our own Ogrojatra Rugby and social Development club come forward to disinfecting public places to avoid the spreading of deadly Coronavirus. our sincere gratitude to the youth leaders and players to come forward to support their own community.

Grassroots Talent Hunt by BKSP (only sports education institute in Bangladesh.  SHI proud to announce that our Ogrojatra Rugby and Community Development club take the initiative to support their own community through volunteer activities in social development as well as engaging children and youth in sporting activities. Congratulations Deb Prosad Shil Md Arîfbilláh and Ogrojatra Table Tennis School) for preparing upcoming raw talent in different sports.

Girls and women face a disproportionate number of life challenges, which reduces their ability to achieve their full potential. Recent studies show that despite formal guarantees of equality, the overall rate of progress for women, particularly those from the poorest and most marginalized regions has been slow. Women and girls continue to encounter inequalities and deprivations in their daily lives, which prevents them from contributing toward both the creation of more equitable societies and sustainable development within their communities and beyond.

Sports provide women not only physical and mental strength, along with confidence, but also a way to become self-dependent in order to break the social barriers to living a better and healthy life. Sports for Hope and Independence continuously advocating the community them about the importance of sport participation for girls and offer safe space for the girls where they can come and express themselves through Rugby.

Betaga, Bagerhat is situated in the southern part of Bangladesh. Which used have a negative perception about girl’s sports participation.  After all the struggles with stereotypes, social norms and negative perception of the community on rugby participation of girls for the last three years. Finally, we break all the barriers and our girls Rugby team participated in the National Rugby Championship by representing Bagerhat.

According to  Fatema captain of the team  “The most important thing about rugby is it makes me more self-dependent and stronger. Initially, I used to think about what people will think about me if they see me playing Rugby but after some training sessions, Rugby gives me the KICK of confidence to fight with all the perception and social norms. I believe every single girl Bangladesh should participate in sporting activities to build their own confidence like me.”

There are an estimated 16 million people with disabilities in Bangladesh or 10% of the country’s population. Access to the education of a person with disabilities is very limited in Bangladesh. This is because of improper physical infrastructure, lack of proper training among the teachers, lack of appropriate teaching-learning materials and lack of assistive devices for both mobility and communications. Due to inaccessible constructions of various establishments, the mobility of persons with disabilities is limited. This is an important contributor to the exclusion of the person with the disability into mainstream development activities. The issue of accessibility for persons with disabilities in buildings and public transport is still not recognised.

On 13 December 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ⁽¹⁾which does not create any new rights for persons with disabilities  they have the same human rights as any other person within the community but instead makes the existing rights inclusive of, and accessible to, persons with disabilities. The purpose of the Convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity. (1 [Article 1]).

Sports for Hope and Independence (SHI) sports is a gateway of the person with disabilities to integrate with society. Sport empowers Persons with the disability to challenge there comfort zone to make interaction with community people. It helps to reduce negative perception about disability as well as it gives independence to a person with the disability. SHI started a wheelchair basketball program to challenge social barriers by education different skills such as communication, peer activities, physical independence, etc through basketball.