How a kabaddi club is changing Indian girls’ lives

Meenye’s eyes up from the left and back again, temporarily search when they can move.

She is playing Kabaddi, Indian connection games now played in more than 50 countries worldwide.

The Kabaddi games are played between two groups, each one with seven players. Individuals alone turn to solve a half of target to grant opponents and take them half-handed in their half.

But for a 14-year-old meee, this is more than more than one success. This game saves a saved lives, in the countryside and opens the land over there.

They feel different when playing, “says, they struggle to find the words.” At the moment, I’m not a homework, employee with the hardships and issues. With me and the opponent … It’s more powerful than other girls who don’t play. “

Meena sits out of a village of fabric, kisoshi, about 230km to the economic capital in India, where girls are affecting chores, wedding and children.

But 15 years ago, a group of teachers in the village school decided that they want a chance to continue.

“I have a daughter. I want him to fulfill things in life, to have a very good life, to be something,” he does one of them of Rajgard.

So he is a friend, who played kabaddi sitting young, decided that it would be better to teach ordinary girls who would do. Those who keep the money – 5,000 Rupees ($ 60; £ 50) – they feared a school to allow them to use their place, believe what they have made in the area of ​​Kabaddi.

In early, only two girls, both at the school, joined. “Parents are not planning to make their girls play a kobaddi as it would be a lot of time away from home,” he says. “They also have troubleshooting and situation, such as social families may not agree that girls are out and come home late.

Daji and the staff went to the door to encourage the door to which their daughters are playing Kabaddi on the school part of the school starts and after me. He encouraged them to check the girls properly and never allow them to be disturbed by boys.

Finally, the teachers take the girls in their homes and expel them, but obzales growing no longer done. Now, about 30 girls are in the group and is pretended to approximately 300 students from the start of the teaching, including the daughter of Daj. Some start playing as seven years.

As all the other members of the club, the Meena tags for two hours before school and two hours after completion. Must get off the house ripening but don’t go back to the night.

“I go alone and dirty [in the morning]. I was afraid of someone else to do anything me. My brothers were not encouraged to him at the time, and they were not happy to be in Sunday, “he says.

But they are fighting, they were told by the Club members who have done the best for many years and are connecting to a state or area. Sidde Adsa and Samreen Burgandar was one of the first class that teaches in the club about eight years. Now, when they are 25, they are Neagaral’s skilled ski and stress.

At first, their families think that playing cabad was a role-play, and when women decided to make their own job, their parents were not pleased. There is still pressure to them to marry, they immediately their families are proud of women doing well.

“No one in my family,” nobody else I get. “Now I’m living in a big city and make my decision. From my area, it’s hard to do what they want. I’m here for the kabita,” says.

Sidhi plays one group like Samureen – their birthright in Kabad. They are walking around India to compete, win medals and competition. “I was able to do this because of Kabaddi. Only if I would have been married in my husband’s accident,” says All S?

Success in India can also help players find a public job. Indian countries divide the functions of the best in sports, verification of money, even the age of sports is over.

Many rural girls take a game and dreams that are independent through these tasks. It also helps to respect more and sound.

“We will start a game club, no one gave to these girls. He always becomes many citizens in their homes, in an old organization.

“But we realized that the rural girls are towards the lives of their lives, their lives would change most. As they speak themselves, their lives are changing.”

Although he did not become a gymnastists, many members of the club have seen their courage and they are scared of their families to allow them to go to university and begun wedding.

The community will receive again, and when they see a fantasies, people do not understand them again.

The club is supported by coaches, the reward of money provided a group winning a race and other offerings. Many girls come from poor and unacceptable families and should not pay any loans.

And as well as teaching a regular time, the club arises with summer schools, provides food as eggs, bananas and milk, and often pay the injured medicine.

At times, parents’ fear will begin to happen, but opposers sometimes skepticize the doors of coachs. “People say things like. ‘Why don’t you agree with guys?'” Says Dadji. But there is said to be the chance of boys, and there’s a difference in girls.

“We are not their coachs,” adds noise sourem. “We are sometimes their parents, guiding it, helping them to make the right decisions.”

And Mneoke knows the possibility of this precious privilege: “I want to be the best older,” he says, eager to dream of the medals, the winners and leave the life of normal girls.