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The Football for development programme reaches out to children and youth between 7 to 16 years. Our Football Programme is at the heart of our intervention in low-income communities. Based on ‘No School, No Football’, OSCAR provides football and life skills sessions to children from low-income backgrounds as long as they attend school regularly. Through our coaches and a network of OSCAR Young Leaders, we reach out to 24 low-income communities across 4 cities. Weekly football sessions help our children develop their football skills and enable our trainers to teach key life skills including leadership, problem-solving and teamwork whilst raising awareness on pertinent social issues including child marriage, health and hygiene practices and gender discrimination.

Objectives of Programme
• Ensuring children stay in school by using football as a motivator
• Impart football skills and deliver life skills modules through football sessions
• Engaging community through parents meetings and home visits
• Providing platforms where children can boost their confidence through various activities such as tournaments, annual events, exposure visits.

Project deliverables
This project will support the 4 batches of younger kids from Mumbai, a group of 30-35 children each batch. The age group of 7 to 12 and it's an ongoing project. Children will have access to different activities and exposures such as
1. Regular Football and life skill sessions are conducted. Yearly 36 sessions are delivered on football and life skills. Every group will have 2 coaches.
2. Football skill test Pre and post to evaluate the progress of the children
Parents Meeting and home visit - twice a year parents meeting and a home visit is conducted to engage parents and update them about OSCAR programmes and their children's progress and development.
3. Children Meeting- Quarterly children meetings are conducted to review the progress of children, understand their performance at school and address any problems they may be having
4. Outdoor Exposures/Visits - Various outdoor activities and visits are organised where children get opportunities to visit and LIVE watches such as IPL, ISL, field visits etc.
5. Events & tournament - Every team/ batch participates in different local football tournaments and internal tournaments such as International Women Day, Annual Football Day, etc. Few children get opportunities to play for I-League

Monitoring & Evaluation - To ensure effective implementation of programmes, activities coaches maintain hard copies, records of sessions reports. To see that data is captured accurately OSCAR inputs the data in the UPSHOT software to monitor the outcomes and impact.