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The Siddis are an Indo-African community who migrated to India over 400 years ago living mostly in Karnataka and scattered across Gujarat, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. Facing racism and being neglected since 400 years and since independence, they have confined themselves into forest areas in the coastal belt of India. They choose to stay away from mainstream society to avoid facing racism and ignorance. There are over 40,000 Siddis residing in Karnataka alone. Only in 2003, they received recognition as tribals, before which they weren’t even recognised prohibiting them from availing any government services. In 1987, the Sports Authority of India (SAI) started special areas program to train Siddis in athletics. The Siddis were relying on sports to train and represent India and also as pathway towards their integration into the mainstream Indian society. But unfortunately, despite the Special ares games being a success, by the start of 1990’s - SAI stopped the program. SAI restarted the program to train the Siddis and also build a sports academy for them. But the plan was scrapped and the Siddis were left alone and ignored again. Incidentally, the present decade is declared by United Nations’ as International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024). In 2016, we have restarted the program to train them in athletics along with support of local district association and communities. 
 After 2 years of extensive research with tribals of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka and working with over 1800 children. We are creating India's first ecosystem for athletics in Uttra Karnataka district of Karnataka. The region has naturally athletic communities such as Siddi community, who migrated as African slaves to India almost 400 years ago. We have scientifically researched on the Siddi community at Centre for Sports Science, Medicine and Research institute in Manipal. We have visited Kenya and have recently just come back from Jamaica. We are currently working closely with coaches from Jamaica. At our centre in Northern Karnataka, we identify children from age of 8-12 years through village level athletic meets, involving the district association. The athletes are selected scientifically by our scouts and sports scientists and are supported in athletics training - including daily nutrition, coaching, equipment and education.  We have been appreciated by various national and international media channels like BBC, NHK and Economic Times, Hindu and Indian Express.We have fully fledged team including sports scientists and have partnerships at both community level and elite training institutes, to support these athletes. With just over 6 months of training, 90% of our athletes qualified for state meet; one of our athlete Nayana ended the season as India's 15th fastest 400 mtr sprinter; With just 2 months of professional training, Ravikiran finished with his season best 10.8 secs in 100 mtrs. 
 We are working with a singular motto of ensuring that for the first time in Indian history, we qualify for all the athletic events in Olympics and compete at the highest level.

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Majority of children in India do not have access to sustainable sports training. Only 0.0035% of them are trained under government's flagship grassroots program, Sports India (also called Sports Authority of India). There is a need to broad base sports and make it accessible to all children to learn, play and excel in sports. The average cost for training per month ranges from 700 INR - 2000 INR and children from rural and tribal belts of India do not have access to a pathway to excel in sports. 
 We identify local community coaches (usually an ex-athlete) who are a part of the PATANG program (Planning athletic training and nurturing grassroots development), where they develop technical expertise and provide training to children at local community/government schools in a particular sport. We are currently focussed on athletics (short and long distance running). All the children participate in India’s first time-based community leagues called the Patang League. Through this league, we identify potential athletes who are within 20% of national/international records and these athletes are enrolled into BoS Academy. 
 Bridges of Sports Foundation is currently operational in 3 states of India - Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa.Through the PATANG league we have identified 14 elite athletes who are training to represent India at the Olympics.We have trained and engaged more than 2500 children across these 3 states of India. All of these children had limited or no access to any athletics training before our intervention. The whole process is gamified for the coaches which brings down the training cost per child per month to just 99 INR/month.

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