Slum Children Sports Talent Education Development Society (SCSTEDS) (Regd.No.1415/2000 under T.N Society Registration Act) is the Brain child of the socially conscious youth of Vyasarpadi (one of the largest slums in India).
The vision of SCSTEDS is to protect the rights of the slum children by identifying and honing athletic potential of under-privileged youngsters and further up bring them on par with international standards in playing with addition to academic improvement. The mission of SCSTEDS is to improve social and economical development of the slum youth through drastic and significant means.
The Society (Affiliated by Chennai Football Association and in MoU with Sports Development Authority of Tamilnadu) has transformed Vyasarpadi area to be re-named “Small Brazil of Chennai” by a large section of people including media. Our football team with two decades of experience had an opportunity to play in 2010 with a European Team in Gothenburg Sweden and even won against the formidable Euro-Team. This has been an eye-opener (achieved through right guidance and gentle encouragement) for a whole generation of young boys and girls, looking for direction and social security in their lives.
SCSTEDS has focused on issue:-
1. Usage of football as a sports tool for the marginalized slum and street children towards moral education for more than a two decades and trained 5,000+ children in football and other sports, further acquainting them with various skills for social development. By choosing sports as an alternative, it brought togetherness, sense of commitment, team-spirit and worked many wonders by improving the social environment for the generally troubled and dysfunctional slum children.
The Significant Achievements of SCSTEDS from the year 2000 in the area of social development through football and other sports are namely:-
- Trained and Developed 20 players for participation in International Championships.
- Trained and Developed 23 players for participation in National Championships.
- Trained and Developed 37 players for participation in State Championships.
- One of our organization prodigy Mr.Nandhakumar played football with many renowned International legends including Brazilian “Ronaldinho” and French Freestyler “Sean Garnier” in Futsal Tournament,chennai.
- Mr.Nandhakumar still plays for Indian Super League and many of our sports prodigies play for various other clubs(within state and outside)
- STEDS team was the first to get recognition from North Chennai for Affiliation by Chennai Football Association and were the first to move up from 4th Division to Super Division(4th ,3rd,2nd,1st & Super Division in stages)
Milestones by SCSTEDS:-
- Developed two football playgrounds with artificial Turf (First of its kind in TamilNadu) at Vyasarpadi, Chennai at a total cost of 1.5 Crores with support of Corporation of Chennai.
- SCSTEDS campaigned and guided slum dwellers of Vyasarpadi in the year 2008 for community development programme to avail financial aid of Rs.65 lakhs for construction of houses damaged in fire through Central Government scheme “JNNURM”.
- Created, Developed, Renovated and Upgraded 24 Balwadi’s(Pre-schools) , 18 ration shops and 4 Schools in Vyasarpadi area with support of Government of India.
- All India football federation has gave us permission and opportunity for conduct of training Slum Children under Banner “Development of Grassroots” in Chennai. This great opportunity was accorded to STEDS alone and it was conducted successfully at the event “ AFC Grassroots Day 2019”
SCSTEDS Achievements:-
- Through SCSTEDS initiative school dropout rate drastically reduced from 90% to 0%.
- On prior notification prevented Child Marriages (200)
SCSTEDS Recognition:-
- World Health Organization (WHO) sought our assistance for (Year) for campaign ‘Eradication of Tuberculosis (TB)’ and our team effectively worked on this non-monetary health project.
- Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports,Government of India recognized SCSTEDS as “Best Youth Group in Chennai”
- UNICEF allotted space for SCSTEDS in its coffee-table book called “changing life through power of sports’.
Given the above scenario, off late we have enunciated a pioneer project named ‘Towards Twenty 20’ (Year 2020) to develop sports players on par with international standards, help in improving academic performances of students to score > 60% marks, eradicate girl child marriage and ensure nil school dropouts.
Our Associates:-
- Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu
- Corporation of Greater Chennai
- Slum Clearance Board Of Tamil Nadu
- Child Rights and You (CRY)
- Asia Initiative
- RR Donnelley
Our Projects :- 10
Child Care Beneficiaries:- 2000
Football and Education Beneficiaries :- 5000
Disaster Management Relief Beneficiaries: – 7000
No.of Volunteers :- 100