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One Win Leads To Another – East India Hockey Project

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With the objective to promote the empowerment of women and girls for community leadership to combat human trafficking and gender-based violence, Shakti Vahini and U.S Consulate Kolkata, with the support of Middlebury College, Vermont has implemented the East India Hockey Project in Jharkhand. 

  • As part of the East India Hockey Projects, three Hockey Training Camps were organised in Ranchi, Jharkhand in the years 2019, 2020 and 2023 respectively, with the support of the Jharkhand Police, Jharkhand Commission for Protection of Child Rights, South Eastern Railway-Ranchi division and District Hockey Federation to promote empowerment of women and girls.
  • During the field hockey camp in the year 2020, as part of the exposure and life skills training, five young field hockey players were selected for a Cultural Immersion and Exposure Visit to the United States of America for a period of three weeks. The selected field hockey players, throughout he camp displayed qualities of leadership skills, self-reliance and confidence because of which they were selected for the exposure visit to the United States.

Key Partners for the East India Hockey Project includes- 

  1. Department of Sports & Youth Affairs, Jharkhand.
  2. Department of Women, Child Development and Social Security, Jharkhand. 
  3. South Eastern Railways, Ranchi, Jharkhand. 
  4. Jharkhand Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Jharkhand Police
  5. Jharkhand district police for Ranchi, Simdega, Khunti, Chaibasa, East Singhbhum and Gumla districts.
  6. Jharkhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
  7. Jharkhand State Khadi and Village Industries Board.  
  8. Railway Protection Forces
  9. Department of Health and Family Welfare
  10. Education Department

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