OSCAR Foundation is a Sports for Development (S4D) organisation that uses the power of football to encourage children to stay in school. Through our Football, Education and Young Leader programmes, we have empowered 14,000 children and youth in low-income OSCAR started with 18 young children in 2010, who dropped out of school. They were on the verge of being lost in the vicious cycle of child labour, addiction and poverty. The OSCAR Foundation broke this cycle to help these children .. achieve their dreams.
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communities in India since 2010.
IMPACT IN 2022
2910
Football Programme Beneficiaries
127
Children Meetings Conducted
135692
Contact Hours with students across all programs
Children in our Digital Learning Centres
23
Priya (17) has excelled across OSCAR programmes and led her team to victory at the prestigious Dana Cup tournament held in Denmark. She dedicated the win to her mother Jyoti, who has been extremely supportive of our work and has helped enrol a number of children into OSCAR programmes. Priya was recently selected to play for Maharashtra, her home state.
Young Leaders
Learning Centres 6 Digital
Communities Supported
876
114 51.8 %
32
Gender Ratio in our Digital Learning Centres
Priya has been with OSCAR since she was 10. She played football for the first time at OSCAR and slowly developed her skills and excelled in the technical aspects of the game. She also improved her decision making skills on and off the field after attending life skills sessions on the topic. She represented OSCAR and India in Denmark in 2019 where our girls team won the Dana Cup, one of the largest tournaments in the world. Priya was recently selected to represent Maharashtra in the U18 category. Priya belongs to the Ambedkar Nagar community and lives with her parents and 2 siblings. Her mother is a domestic help while her father is a chef at a nearby coffee shop.
600
224
Batches of students across all Programmes
Sessions a Day
Girls and Mothers engaged during our Women's Week activities
1408
Skill Tests conducted