To empower girls and boys from underserved slum communities in the city of Bhubaneswar in Eastern India to become gender-sensitive, confront harmful gender-based stereotypes and impact gender-perceptions of peers, family members and school teachers, using Table Tennis as an effective medium of learning.
Duration: April 2021 – July 2023
From 2021 to 2023, the Community Table Tennis (CTT) program engaged young people aged 10-16 years from underserved slum communities in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, empowering them as gender-sensitive leaders within their schools and communities to challenge harmful gender norms and positively impact their families, peers, teachers, and the broader community.
The program leveraged the transformative power of table tennis to develop life skills and build young people’s capacity to recognize and resist gender-based stereotypes and discrimination prevalent in their communities.
