Ms Sharmistha Sen
Co-founderFounder of Victory Sports Foundation
Ms Sharmistha Sen is the co-founder of Victory Sports Foundation[1], an Indian non-profit working on sports and women & children from Chennai.
Victory Sports Foundation
Victory Sports Foundation (VSF) was started in Chennai in 2004 on the premise that no child should be denied the right to play. It uses football and boxing as tools to engage underprivileged children in structured training that emphasises teamwork, fair play and life-skill development. The foundation runs programmes and school hubs across Chennai and other Tamil Nadu locations including Cheyyar, Yelagiri and Bargur.
Victory Sports Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- Victory Sports Foundation has supported 3,000+ children and distributed 3,500 sports kits across 5 districts in Chennai since starting as an informal boxing initiative in 2004
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- Chennai
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References
- [1] “One of the co-founders at Victory Sports Foundation, Ms Sharmistha Sen truly believes in the cause of the upliftment of children from underprivileged backgrounds.” — Victory Sports Foundation. Source
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