DIGNITY THROUGH SPORTS - Social responsibility is our raison d 'etre

The YCH started with 4 kids and 3 little boats and has now grown to about 150+ boats and about 150 children. We largely work as a privately funded foundation and since 2009, our work has focused on disadvantaged children from government schools. Our sailing infrastructure and expertise is built with the primary intention to work with disadvantaged communities.

Learning life skills

  • The kids are taught to sail at the national level and the sport is used as a medium to interact with them and upgrade their ability to handle challenges, success, failure and competition.

  • We connect them to career counseling, help admit them to better institutions, fund and monitor their education, provide them with nutrition, medical aid, bikes to get them to school and the club, take them across the country and abroad to International championships.

  • The process has helped us produce many a National champion. This vindicates our coaching prowess and the efficiency of our systems.

CAREER FOUNDATIONS

  • The whole focus is to provide the kids with a stable and sustainable career and move them gradually from the vernacular medium to English and into a lucrative profession of their choice.

  • Some need to turn vocational given poor academic performance and interest levels and while we do look towards sending them to vocational institutions perhaps there is nothing better than to exploit existing skills and employ them in the sailing industry with opportunities at the club and similar institutions across the country.

  • We are constantly looking towards improving their vocational skills and employability.

  • 19 Boys have been admitted to the Army and Navy Boys Sports Companies after being trained at the YCH and 2 directly in the Navy as on May 14 2021.

FUNDING

  • Our current sources of funding have been sponsors to an annual national level regatta we run called the Monsoon Regatta and over the years, donations from friends and well wishers who believe in the cause.

  • We have been actively supported by Deloitte and The Marriott Hotel for many years.

Please do take a few minutes to watch these videos made by friends on our CSR work.

Regatta 2014: YCH and Akanksha Foundation | Dignity Through Sports

Monsoon Regatta

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