{"id":10511,"date":"2022-08-10T14:07:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/?post_type=event-post&p=10511"},"modified":"2022-08-10T14:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:08:01","slug":"dribble-academy-foundation-democratizing-basketball-in-india","status":"publish","type":"event-post","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/sport-business\/leaders-events\/leaders-sport-awards\/2022-shortlist\/purpose-categories\/dribble-academy-foundation-democratizing-basketball-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Dribble Academy Foundation: Democratizing basketball in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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    The children of rural India have inadequate access to education and skilling, and as a result are limited to manual labour, or worse, illegal activity. Research\u00a0has shown that sports help develop life skills and prevent\u00a0delinquency among children and youth.<\/p>\n

    Dribble Academy Foundation (DAF) is a sports-for-development organization aiming to empower 100,000 rural children with basketball by 2030. Pradyot Voleti founded DAF in 2016 with four children and a hoop on bamboo sticks in a village in Uttar Pradesh. Today, we work with 3000+ children across seven villages, pushing the frontiers of Indian basketball with our world-class training program. Our students are also taught English, digital literacy, public speaking, and arts, and have represented India at the Jr.NBA World Championship in Orlando. Over ten students have received sports scholarships at prestigious universities, almost all first-generation college-goers. Our impact is well chronicled, with donors provided with impact reports every quarter, and the reports are audited by internal and external auditors bi-annually.<\/p>\n

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