Get, set, go
To reduce the inequities in learning, Parminder Gill, visiting faculty at Azim Premji University and co-founder of Sportz Village Foundation, has designed the country’s first offline programme to deliver remote learning to children, who do not have internet access. Race around India is a series of travel-themed workbooks. The programme takes children through a simulated race across the country. “Children are divided in different teams and get to ‘travel’ or ‘race’ through different cities in India even as they complete certain physical tasks and activities in their homes or communities. Each city or region lists down certain activities that the children must complete as a team before they can proceed further. The programme not only gets children to be physically active, but also helps improve their knowledge about our country. The offline model also ensures that children irrespective of their social segment, age or gender be a part of it,” says Gill, who has been invited by FICCI and NITI Aayog for his inputs on using sports to drive change. The workbooks have been translated into multiple local languages.