SPORTS AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Our Sports and Recreational Activities

Sports Activities

Sports are an integral part of a child’s mental and physical well-being and also develop sportsman spirit. It is an important activity to learn different skills, leadership, organisation abilities, time management, discipline and above all, promotes brotherhood.

Children with special needs have an equal opportunity in the playing arena under ISHWAR’s sports therapy programmes.

ISHWAR Shooting Sports Club is affiliated to Delhi State Rifle Association imparting training in shooting sports not only for our children to enjoy as a sport but also help them in getting trained for suitable employment in police and law enforcement agencies.

Chess is another sport enjoyed by children at ISHWAR under the guidance and patronage of Tania Sachdev, Grandmaster, with trained coaches from the Delhi Chess Federation.

Aims

Formation of socially-inclusive Sports Clubs to remove barriers which exclude children from the mainstream groups either due to poverty or due to disability.
Seek affiliation from State Sports Associations and bodies to get access to the best coaches and facilities for training of our children.
Include persons with disabilities in suitable sporting activities to create positive, qualitative and attitudinal changes resulting in a tangible shift in the perception of the concept of disability.
Seek access and make use of government sports complexes for benefit of our children who feel marginalized due to either disability, poverty or gender bias.

ISHWAR Shooting Sports Club

ISHWAR is affiliated to the Delhi State Rifle Association, the state body for shooting sports under the able support and patronage of Shri Jaspal Rana, Padmashree, Arjuna Awardee and Chief Coach of the Indian Junior Pistol Team. Members of ISHWAR’s shooting team are deemed members of Delhi State Rifle Association and are eligible to represent Delhi at the Zonal, All-India and National level shooting competitions and championships.

Sports Shooting

The Shooting Club was the conceptualized by Arvind Kamal, then a 17 year old young lad who achieved the status of National Renowned Shooter in pistol shooting. He envisioned bringing the sport to the under-privileged and specially-abled children studying at ISHWAR to enable their participation in shooting competitions, both as a sport and also to train them for a future career in the police / armed forces. He also coached children in shooting sports as part of his community service programme before leaving abroad for his higher education.

ISHWAR’s General Secretary, Anupam Kamal, also a National Renowned Shooter in pistol events, is a member of the Governing Board of Delhi State Rifle Association and President of the South Delhi District Rifle Association. He has taken upon himself to train ISHWAR’s children in shooting sports, providing them with coaching, shooting range access and even visiting the famous Dr Karni Singh Shooting Ranges in Tughlakabad, Delhi.

ISHWAR Chess Club

This Club was conceptualized by Mrs Anju Sachdev, President of ISHWAR. She is mother of Tania Sachdev, Arjuna Awardee and World Women Grandmaster and Commonwealth Games Medallist. She and her team introduced chess to children of ISHWAR. Many other renowned chess players help to train the children including coaches from the Delhi Chess Federation.

Other Sports

Programme started at Sirifort Sports Complex, New Delhi in February 2004, targeting children between 9 to 15 years, disadvantaged by disability or lack of resources, access and social apathy. Children from many other NGOs also participated in this programme.

Trained coaches and therapists work with the children and train them in the following:

Ball Skills (through basketball, cricket and football)
Aerobics (movement and rhythmic skills)
Skating (balancing and coordination of body and mind)
Hydro-therapy (swimming)

Other Recreational Activities

To ensure holistic development, children at ISHWAR are given immense opportunities to excel in recreational activities too!

IRIS Photography Club

This Club serves three purposes:

1. Being a socially inclusive programme, this activity portrays ISHWAR’s aim to provide equal opportunity to all our children.
2. Introduce underprivileged children to theme-based photography as a hobby and recreational activity as mostly all children have smart phones and do take pictures, selfies etc.
3. Professional photography is a career choice now-a-days and can be one of our additional training avenues under Vocational Training, along with stitching, tailoring, beauty, make-up, computers etc.

Monthly Photo Contest themes for children:

1. Portraiture
2. Nature & Wildlife photography
3. Macro photography
4. Landscape photography
5. Street photography
6. Picture Stories

Prizes
– First, Second, Third
– Gift Vouchers
– Consolation Prizes
– Certificates
Children who show interest are exposed to further studio training with proper lighting and DSLR cameras to train them into professional photogs.