SUMPOORNA provides a unique opportunity for educational institutions and individuals to introduce or learn the game of basketball.
To plan and streamline the activities of SUMPOORNA for the next few months a basketball promotion camp is being conducted from 29th to 31st May, 2009. Volunteers would be trained in `marketing of basketball' - `conducting of basketball tournaments' - `officiating tournaments for younger children' according to SUMPOORNA rules.
THIS WOULD ALSO BE THE LAST CAMP FOR THESE SUMMER HOLIDAYS. The programme would also look at `TREKKING' as an addditional sport.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
SUMPOORNA CAMP FROM 6TH TO 10TH MAY
Mr. Anand from Shishu Mandir has been one of my best associates to help me promote my project SUMPOORNA. Every year without fail they have had training camps and I am amazed the way they learn everything so quickly. We expect around 8 children from Tumkur - 12 from Bangalore and 20 from Shishu Mandir.
8 TEAMS playing non-stop matches will vie for the honours in the SUMPOORNA TOURNAMENT and learning will be spontaneous. Everything will be managed by the children themselves - Table management, Refereeing, Coaching - the whole lot. THREE MORE GODS WILL ASSERT THEMSELVES ALONGWITH THE PREVIOUS FIVE. Shishya destroyed all the big names - but what will happen this time - time will tell.
8 TEAMS playing non-stop matches will vie for the honours in the SUMPOORNA TOURNAMENT and learning will be spontaneous. Everything will be managed by the children themselves - Table management, Refereeing, Coaching - the whole lot. THREE MORE GODS WILL ASSERT THEMSELVES ALONGWITH THE PREVIOUS FIVE. Shishya destroyed all the big names - but what will happen this time - time will tell.
I WANT TO CLIMB THE HILLS!
Tomorrow we will set out once again to the beckoning hills of Makalidurga. A group of 20 students from Shishu Mandir will join 40 VSC basketball students. Two lady volunteers have agreed to provide support for the girls and the junior students. As I prepare for tomorrow's trip - I go back FORTY FIVE YEARS when I was an eleven year old and I climbed my first hills in Kulu and Manali area.
Every holiday from my residential school meant `hill climbing' and my parents often got to see me in home only for 2 or 3 days before I was off for some mountaineering expeditions. WE DARED WHAT OTHERS FEARED. For me hill climbing became my religious yearning and I met GOD everytime I climbed a hill. And the few occasions when either due to exams or due to other reasons I had to cancel a hill climbing programme - it was sheer torture. SNOW CLIMBING with special boots - getting lost - almost being killed by an avalanche - digging a cave in snow which collapsed in the night - WHAT WAS IT THAT I DIDN'T DO.
As I re-live the hill climbing days of my youth when my sons were growing up - the joy they got - the A.S.H.A. that was created specially for other children - more than one hundred camps all over - which were the hillocks which we didn't climb - where are these children now?
I am FIFTY-SIX YEARS and the yearning for climbing Makalidurga alongwith these 60 children is so great that I can't even explain it. IF I CAN PASS ON MY LOVE FOR CLIMBING HILLS TO THESE CHILDREN THE EFFORT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORTH WHILE. As the growing city of Bangalore dynamites these small hillocks for buildings a day will surely come when there will be no more hills for children to climb.
The children of future would clamour `I WANT TO CLIMB THE HILLS'but will any be left!
Every holiday from my residential school meant `hill climbing' and my parents often got to see me in home only for 2 or 3 days before I was off for some mountaineering expeditions. WE DARED WHAT OTHERS FEARED. For me hill climbing became my religious yearning and I met GOD everytime I climbed a hill. And the few occasions when either due to exams or due to other reasons I had to cancel a hill climbing programme - it was sheer torture. SNOW CLIMBING with special boots - getting lost - almost being killed by an avalanche - digging a cave in snow which collapsed in the night - WHAT WAS IT THAT I DIDN'T DO.
As I re-live the hill climbing days of my youth when my sons were growing up - the joy they got - the A.S.H.A. that was created specially for other children - more than one hundred camps all over - which were the hillocks which we didn't climb - where are these children now?
I am FIFTY-SIX YEARS and the yearning for climbing Makalidurga alongwith these 60 children is so great that I can't even explain it. IF I CAN PASS ON MY LOVE FOR CLIMBING HILLS TO THESE CHILDREN THE EFFORT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORTH WHILE. As the growing city of Bangalore dynamites these small hillocks for buildings a day will surely come when there will be no more hills for children to climb.
The children of future would clamour `I WANT TO CLIMB THE HILLS'but will any be left!
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