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Over the past few months, our work at
Sportz Village Foundation has
continued
across
schools, communities and programs
alongside important conversations and
reflection
with partners across the ecosystem.
At the core of #SportForChange is
a
commitment to improving access to sport
for
children and young people from
disadvantaged backgrounds across the
country. Our
aspiration is to use sport as a vehicle
for learning, confidence and
opportunity,
contributing to Sportz Village's larger
vision of enabling 100 million children
and young
people to play and grow into champions
in life. To date, we have reached over
350,000
children across 1,300+ public schools,
steady progress grounded in systems,
partnerships and scale.
In the past year, we identified key
barriers to girls' participation through
partner studies
and rolled out targeted interventions to
increase their involvement in sport. We
launched modules strengthening
employability outcomes for both
sport-related and
non-sport career pathways. Our Pathways
to Excellence (PW 36) program advanced
efforts to identify and nurture
grassroots talent, creating clearer
pathways connecting
young athletes to elite and
international opportunities. We took
initial steps to increase
community participation and ownership in
select clusters, building toward locally
anchored sport ecosystems. We also
convened conversations through
roundtables and
the GKTP podcast to deepen understanding
of sport's developmental role.
Our focus continues on strengthening
foundations, improving quality, building
capability and contributing to an
ecosystem that values sustained
outcomes. We will
keep embedding sport both as a
'horizontal' across education, gender,
inclusion and
employability and as a 'vertical' in
health, wellness and athletic
excellence. In the coming
year, we'll roll out technology-driven
programming for low-cost sports
education in
government schools and continue
investing in collective evidence
creation and
best-practice toolkits to accelerate
ecosystem-wide adoption. Sport's true
impact lies
not in isolated interventions, but in
how thoughtfully it integrates into the
systems that
shape learning, inclusion and
opportunity.
We are grateful to our partners who
continue to engage with openness and
intent and
look forward to building the next phase
together.
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