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A girls’ football championship was held at Sreemangal . The teams were named “Bengal tiger” and “Gray Wolves”, national animals of Bangladesh and Turkiye. Mr. Sevki Mart Barış , Coordinator, Turkish International Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) was present there as a chief guest along with Mr. Manjor Alahe (TIKA) and Ms. Sharmin Farhana (Founder and CEO) of SHI.

“Grey wolves” won the match by 2-0. The tea garden workers took a day off and worked together to repair the road in order to support and encourage the girls to play football. Our Sincere gratitude to TİKA DHAKA for your kind support to make this happen.

A session on “Leadership Through Sport” conducted at Empowerment through Law of the Common People- ELCOP on 21st Human Rights Summer School. Pappu Modak, Head of Sport for Development conducted session, He explain the need of sports in connection to develop leadership skills and how sport can Impact leadership qualities.

Paul McWilliams founder of Sports for Joy, UK traveled to Bangladesh to conduct 7 days long training for coaches and youth leaders. Paul expert in engaging children in sport through creating opportunity to participation, inclusion and using local resources to create game. The Coach and youth leaders have on field and off field learning from Paul.

According to Noyan Mia ” The Ideas Coach Paul shared is very unique. These are small steps towards bigger goal which often we forget. I will utilize my learning in my workplace to ensure participation with any exclusion. ”

Sports for Hope and Independence (SHI) Coaches and youth leaders successfully completed purposeful play training course conducted by Coaches Across Continents . Coaches and youth leaders learn how to use sports for Self-directed learning, child rights , mental well-being, Gender equality, female empowerment and SDG’s. The coaches learn self-directed learning, using their own voice, communication, mobilizing resources, value-based leadership, and outside-classroom learning through play. This six days long training session is conducted by Ms. Saraswati Negi and Ms. Nandini Vijay Kumar from Coaches Across Continents.

Sports for Hope and Independence Bangladesh celebrated International Day for Person with Disability by organizing “Disability Sports Festival”. Ms. Nandini Vijay Kumar from Coaches Across Continents conducted the celebration of festival with different inclusive games.

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Four of our team members is participated in Youth Leadership Through Volleyball program in Boston, USA. This program is funded by the U.S State Department. participants gone through intensive training of sport, sharing ideas, and learning different aspects of leadership to be a responsible youth leader. our Sincere gratitude to the U.S. Embassy Dhaka for selecting our participants to be part of this program. #ExchangeOurWorld#ylsvolleyball#SportsDiplomacy#uksd#CAC

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Sports for Hope and Independence Bangladesh is delighted to join the Football for the Goals global community. Football for the Goals (FTG) is run by the United Nations and brings together international organisations who are using football to tackle and raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Empowerment through Law of the Common People- ELCOP is going to organize 12th CLR- Community Law Reform Research 2022 in collaboration with Sports for Hope and Independence Bangladesh on the theme “Street Children of Bangladesh: Making them Visible” from October 2022 to January 2023. The CLR program aims to evaluate the situations and lifestyles of the street children on social, economic and cultural aspects in the major cities of Bangladesh.

Sports for Hope and Independence Bangladesh has been selected for Dr B R Ambedkar International Award 2022 in the category of Sport for Development. The award giving ceremony will be held on 11th October 2022 in Delhi. Sharmin Farhana Founder and CEO, SHI said We are very honored to be awarded to this prestigious award. I would convey my sincere gratitude to all the participants, supporters and well wishers for their kind contribution to get selected for this award .

Bio of Dr B R Ambedkar:

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism.