UNDERPRIVILEGED children with disabilities are often tied to chairs, locked inside the house, ragged by classmates and not allowed to go to school or even step outside to meet others for fear of people seeing them. This results in children being denied an education, deprived of a successful future and forced to grow up without experiencing the joys of childhood. But Umoya Sports Foundation is changing all of that. The Delhi-based NGO trains children with disabilities in various sports and through this training, the children develop academic skills, critical thinking skills, confidence, team work, cognitive skills and physical development.
Umoya Sports Foundation is an organization that believes in the power of sports in empowering children with disabilities. In most cases, underprivileged children with disabilities are overlooked and are not able to go to school and learn along with other children because not all schools are equipped to educate children with disabilities. These children end up being denied an education and do not learn the academic and social skills that a child needs at their age. Without this solid educational foundation, the children are not able to get good jobs in the future and are forced to live a life that is dependent on others for their basic day-to-day survival.
But you can help the sports NGO Umoya Sports Foundation empower underprivileged children with disabilities and help them improve school performance and learn valuable academic, social and physical skills to overcome their disabilities.
An accident helped Aditya experience the suffering of disabled children
Aditya KV started the sports NGO Umoya Sports Foundation after getting into an accident and being confined to a wheelchair. He faced discrimination and was denied opportunities everywhere he went. It was then that he realized that underprivileged children face even worse discrimination. So he started helping children from poorer backgrounds improve their lives through sports. In his own words, “I saw marginalized children facing the same challenges I faced: a severe lack of opportunities, other children picking on them and teachers having low expectations from them.” This affected them emotionally, socially and at the end of the day, academically,” shares the founder of the sports NGO.
Through his Delhi-based sports NGO, Aditya KV started a football program for the children and in a short amount of time, he witnessed remarkable changes in their lives! The children were performing better in school, developing their social and communication skills and improving in their physical fitness which allowed them to overcome their disabilities. Aditya shares that the Right To Play is an important right for all children and that “while play is the first form of learning for any child, unfortunately it is also the first form of exclusion for children with disabilities. This is what we are trying to break through our sports NGO by creating safe and open spaces for children with disabilities.”
How Umoya Sports Foundation transforms children with disabilities
Ayush is a child who had spinal cord injuries, locomotor disabilities and was in a wheelchair. He came to Umoya Sports Foundation when he was just 14 years old and started playing sports for the first time in his life. The sports NGO taught him how to swim and with the NGO’s training and guidance, Ayush became a national level gold medalist in paraswimming! He aims to become a Paralympian and it all started with the hope and confidence instilled in him by Umoya Sports Foundation. Since the sports NGO was founded, it has reached 75,000 children with disabilities and trained 5,000 teachers with the objective of improving the lives of children with disabilities who are filled with potential – just like Ayush.
Have you heard of Wheelchair Ultimate?
Ultimate Frisbee is a popular global sport. It is a team sport that involves each member’s participation to win the game. As with most sports, Ultimate Frisbee has been adapted to be inclusive to individuals with disabilities in a game called Wheelchair Ultimate. As a sports NGO for disadvantaged children, Umoya Sports Foundation has been teaching children in wheelchairs how to play Wheelchair Ultimate and is even training them to represent India at a global competition coming up this 2025. Aditya KV shares that training children in wheelchair-based sports empowers more individuals and strengthens their futures while putting India on the world parasports map.
Support Umoya Sports Foundation
The sports NGO Umoya Sports Foundation needs your support to train more children with disabilities in multiple sports to improve all areas of their lives – from education to skills development. When you support Umoya Sports Foundation, you empower underprivileged children to do better in school, learn important life skills and improve their physical health. When you support the work of this sports NGO, your charitable donations will go on to change the futures of countless children, help the sports NGO train a team of parathletes to compete in the Wheelchair Ultimate competition and give children with disabilities the abilities to dream, achieve their goals and reach new heights. Donate to Umoya Sports Foundation to help the sports NGO give children with disabilities the opportunities to improve their academics, health and lives – through sports.
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Shirley has been in the development sector for over 10 years and is passionate about making a change in the world around her, including adopting dogs and writing to make a difference.
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