Wednesday 22 February 2012

Uflex Stairs Cricket Scholarship Camp held

08 children selected for Scholarship

New Delhi, February 20, 2012: Stairs, an NGO working towards health, education and sports of underprivileged children organized a one-day Cricket Scholarship Camp for underprivileged children, in association with India's largest flexible packaging company-Uflex Ltd., at Guru Nanak Public School, Pitampura, New Delhi, on February 20, 2012. The Uflex Stairs Cricket Scholarship Camp witnessed participation of around 50 children across Delhi, of which 08 were selected for induction into various cricket academies.
Uflex which had recently adopted cricket initiatives taken by Stairs, will bear all the expenses of the academy, which will be near the selected candidate’s place of residence in Delhi. The selected candidates will also get a chance to play for Stairs team, a team of underprivileged children and which participates regularly in cricket championships across India.
“We are happy to be associated with a noble cause of helping underprivileged children in achieving their dream. As a part of the scholarship programme, Uflex will provide scholarship to the 08 students selected through this cricket camp. These children have a lot of potential and latent energy that needs to be tapped and through Uflex Stairs Cricket Scholarship Camp, we hope to channelize this energy in the right direction. Our association with Stairs represents an extension of our Social commitment to bring about a positive change in the life of underprivileged sections of the society through programmes in education, health and sports”, said Mr. R.K.Jain, Group President (Accounts & Finance), Uflex Ltd.
Stairs is planning to organize more such camps all over Delhi in the coming few months. These camps are aimed at providing a platform to the underprivileged children to hone their skills and showcase talent through these camps.
“Children at the camp showed exemplary skills and through training at the academies they will be able to hone it well. In a bid to provide exposure and develop skills of underprivileged children, Stairs has been providing a platform to them where they are encouraged to showcase their talent in the field of sports. Stairs taps this talent to give these children an opportunity to climb up the stairs of social empowerment and shape their character through sports. We help children believe in their own power and that they are agents of their own change through sports and hard work. It believes in a meritorious system to help children's development and create opportunities for them to realize their own potential,” says Mr. Anil Upadhyay, President, Stairs.
Stairs has been organizing cricket championships for the underprivileged children for the last five years. Stairs understands the amount of talent that exists among these children and believes in creating opportunities so that their talent is rightly tapped and nurtured. Talented children are chosen from these camps and provided coaching, sports scholarship and sports gear. Some of the students who have been identified by Stairs are already doing well at the national level and are earning laurels for their state.

About Stairs:

Stairs is a non-profit organization working in the field of development of underprivileged youth through channelisation of their energies in sports and education.



List of selected children:

1) Imran Khan                                
2) Rahul Prashad
3) Sonu Kumar Gupta
4) Saurav Kaushik
5) Santosh Kumar
6) Himanshu Sharma
7) Sagar Singh
8) Mohd. Akram