Education Through Football Saran BIhar -The theme at Mastichak is education through football. This one project addresses issues like education and employment of girls, conservatism, malnutrition amongst girls in Bihar which is one of the backward states in India, premature marriage and motherhood, poverty and of course it may breed footballers who can represent the state and country. Whatever her skills, the girls will be given a career and a job from our side. Contrary to general perception, We do not think that environments like rural Bihar inspire dire cynicism. Actually it requires more understanding and proper intervention. And We were not at all surprised to find girls, including Muslim girls, playing football. People simply are what they are in these areas (from our experience) and less controlled and conditioned by marketing. In fact, where have we ever seen girls play football in a city like Delhi? we would have joined them if we had! All we see in Delhi is rich girls shopping till they drop and worried about their appearance all the time. That's so dull! The girls in Mastichak are having much more fun. The girls have the inherent desire to do something in their life , but illiteracy and poverty amongst their household prevents them from going ahead. After all conservatism is a by-product of poverty and illiteracy. Our recruitment cycle which we follow is :- Go to the local schools and talk about football, education & a job in the classrooms, then identify the interested girls, go to their houses (especially the poorer ones) and convince the parents on the whole project (more importantly not to marry off the girls before 21), get the kits for the girls, train them in football, after the practice teach them English & computers and motivate them to study hard on a Science background, make them undergo the B Sc (Optometry) course at the hospital and make them employable for a minimum starting salary of 8000 anywhere in India.
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