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MAGIC BUS
www.magicbus.org
Largest Mentoring NGO in Asia Started in 1999 as a weekend volunteer-led initiative, Magic Bus today reaches out to 250,000 children using 7500 trained community Youth Volunteer Mentors
Currently working in 22 districts of 12 states Focus Domains: Education, Gender, Health, Socio Emotional Development, Leadership and Livelihoods Works with Children, Adolescents & Youths of age 7-19 years
At the core of our work is a unique Sport for Development curriculum that uses local role models as Mentors. A bank of more than 300 activities using a variety of games. The programme is most impactful on key behaviour changes around play, fitness, healthy habits, education and gender equity. Combines the spirit of Sports for All with development outcomes
Talent spotting and coaching for excellence - an integral part 45% children in our programmes are girls – most of them in mixed gender settings
The term Sport-for-Development refers to the intentional use of sport, physical activity and play to attain specific development objectives, including, most notably, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Magic Bus uses sports as a means to support our programmatic goals.
At the child/participant’s level • Helps attract new
participants • Helps retain interest • Helps establish the
mind-body connect from an early age
• Promotes health and health behaviour
• Builds skills to enhance employability
Why & How Sport Works At the CYL level • Engages, as it
influences, the Magic Bus volunteer
• Involves mind and body
• Promotes health • Builds teams • Is attractive per se • Shows a way out of
poverty • Gives an opportunity
to showcase leadership
MB CYLs
MB
Children At the community’s level Builds a gender-equal community | Promotes community health | Promotes an educated and aware community | Promotes better livelihood options for BPL communities
Sports/Games that we use Football | Handball | Cricket | Volleyball | Rugby | Indigenous games - Kabaddi, Kho Kho, Pithoo, etc.| Innovative games with just cones and markers
A Typical Magic Bus Session
ICE BREAKER SPORTING GAME ANTICIPATORY
HOOK MAIN GAME SIT-BREATHE-
THINK TAKE AWAY
• Participants go through an Experience through a sport based activity.
EXPERIENCE
• Participants Reflect/ Analyse the experience through comparison, contrast, examining the validity of assumptions, and so on.
REFLECT
• Participants think about the implication of what has been learnt , work out how they might themselves apply it, and sometimes get a chance during the session to Apply this.
APPLY
• Participants perceive what has been learnt as a larger whole, a set of connected components (i.e. understanding how the specific session take away is connected to the larger objective / domain)
CONSOLIDATE
5 Key elements in the session 1.Joyful Learning 2.Participation 3.Safe Environment 4.Experiential
Learning 5.Mentoring
Learning Process in MB Session
PRE-AWARENESS
AWARENESS
CONTEMPLATION
INTENTION TRIAL
ADOPTION
MAINTENANCE
RECYCLE/RELAPSE
Year 1: Awareness building on
various issues
Year 2:
Attitude formation
Year 3:
Behavior change
Year4: Sustainability
of the program
Laws of Learning Key requirement for learning
Law of Readiness Motivation
Law of Exercise Practice and Repetition
Need for feedback
Law of Effect Positive emotional response
Law of Intensity Heightened perception and
concentration
Law of Primacy Timeliness (the earlier
learning happens in a
person’s life, the more
effective it is)
Law of Recency Repetition
Few Impacts
Education:
• Child are more regular at school, reduces his/her chances of dropping out
and increases school life expectancy.
• Nearly all Magic Bus children (over 95%) have an attendance rate of more
than 80%
• 98% of the adolescent girls in the Magic Bus programme continue in school
Gender:
• Participation in the Magic Bus programme enables children and families to
rethink gender stereotypes thus opening up possibilities for growth and
development of girls:
• 42% of Magic Bus participants in our programme are girls
• 92% of MB participants believe that girls and boys have an equal capacity to
excel in sports
• 82.7% of MB participants believe that it is equally important to invest in a
girl’s as well as a boy’s future
Health:
• Participation in Magic Bus sessions equips children with the necessary
information to make positive changes in their health and hygiene habits:
• 77.52% of children at Magic Bus follow good practices related to personal
hygiene including hand washing, brushing, bathing and cutting nails.
• India NGO “Rising Star” Award 2013
• The Citizen’s Based Initiative Award, 2003
• World Bank Development Market Place, Education Section
• Global Fund for Children - Sustainability Award 2004-5
• Voices for Children Humanitarian of the Year Award 2004
• Ashoka Citizens Based Initiatives Award, 2005
• Alcan Prize for Sustainability - 2006 Runner-Up and study grant recipient
• Recognised as a good practice by UN Habitat 2006
• Formal MOU with GoI MYAS as knowledge partners and communication consultants for PYKKA 2010-11
• MoUs with State Govts. of AP, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Mizoram & Karnataka
Awards and Recognition
CASE STORY : Parvati Pujari, 22. Magic Bus Mentor
Parvati was born in a family of construction
workers, one of Mumbai’s 4 million
chronically poor families who live on less
than INR 592 per month.
With inputs from Magic Bus’s mentors,
however, this star footballer is now studying
in college and working in the Magic Bus
office, the first person in her family to do
either.
Parvati is also a global fundraiser for Magic
Bus, travelling around the world to raise
monies for Magic Bus’s work across India.
CASE STORY : Gulafsha Ansari, 16. Magic Bus Child
Gulafsha lives in Dharavi – otherwise known as Asia’s largest slum, in a family of daily
wage workers.
For the last 4 years, Gulafsha has been coming for Magic Bus sessions. With inputs from
Magic Bus’s mentors, this teenage footballer is now enrolling in college and opening her
own girls sports programme in her neighborhood. This work won her a scholarship from
the Judy Foudy Foundation – she won in a global online competition where browsers
voted for the best projects. Gulafsha attended the London Olympics as part of her prize.
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