Community organisation uses sports to get girls back in school
CHENNAI: Twelve years ago, when she was six, J Saktheeswari was sent to pack fish for export. Sorting raw fish, gutting and cleaning them, and breaking ice with her bare hands every day, she gave up on her dream of becoming a football player and thought she would have to follow her three sisters and get married at 15. That’s when the Slum Children Sports Talent Education Development Society ((SCSTEDS), a community-based organisation in Vyasarpadi, helped her realise her dream