Building stronger communities, one game at a time.
Sportz Village Foundation works across two interconnected areas, one that ensures every child gets to play and one that ensures the talented ones get to go further.
*Tracked through our proprietary sport management platform across all program sites.
Our work contributes to six of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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Regular sport builds fitness, stamina and emotional resilience that stay with children for life.
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Sport keeps children in school, improving focus, attendance and the likelihood of continuing to higher education.
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Our every program is designed to bring girls onto the same field, building safety, agency and equal opportunity through sport.
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From youth coach pipelines to social entrepreneurship pathways, sport creates livelihoods and opens doors beyond the field.
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Children from rural, tribal and marginalised communities access the same structured sport and talent pathways as anyone else.
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Over 100 corporates, 35+ government and CSR partners and international organisations working together to scale sport for development.
#SportforChange brings structured physical education to children aged 6-16 in government schools. Every session is planned, every child is tracked, fitness levels are assessed annually. Children who participate regularly show consistent improvement in core physical fitness parameters – speed, stamina, coordination and strength, measured against national benchmarks.
Across programs supported by partners including Ashok Leyland, Chambal Fertilisers and HCL Foundation, a 10-31% improvement in fitness levels has been documented, with speed gains tracked longitudinally over three years.
Sport is not separate from learning, it is a driver of it. Children in #SportForChange program are more likely to stay in school, more engaged in the classroom and more motivated to continue education. In Rajasthan, one partner school documented an 18% improvement in attendance after structured sport was introduced. Across Odisha, children in the Derang cluster showed improved academic engagement alongside their sporting development.
The EduSports curriculum, used by us, since 2009 and embedded in government school PE programs across multiple states, is designed to align physical activity with developmental learning milestones, building cognitive skills alongside physical ones.
For many girls, participation in sport is shaped by barriers that extend far beyond the playing field – from safety concerns and social norms to limited encouragement and a lack of opportunities designed with their needs in mind. Addressing these barriers requires more than access; it requires intentional program design and interventions.
PathwayZ is our talent identification and development initiative, built on the conviction that every school in India has a child capable of competing at the highest level. The challenge has always been finding them and giving them a real path forward.
Through standardised scouting across our school network, PathwayZ identifies student-athletes aged 13-21 and places them in structured training at 90+ Sports Development Centres and High Performance Learning Centres (HPLCs) across athletics, football, volleyball, cricket and kabaddi. From there, the pathway leads to district, state and national competition and direct linkages to academies.
Balamurugan, discovered through the Chennai Kaalpandhu League in partnership with LatentView Analytics, is now training at India Khelo Football’s residential camp in Patna. His story, from government school student to rising football athlete is the PathwayZ promise made real.
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