Sports Day brings young people together

It has been a few weeks since I posted. There has been a lot of activity here at GDL. Last Sunday, we organized a Sports Day. The day kicked off with a 5K race and was culminated with the final match of a three day cricket tournament. It was a great community event – a lot of kids came out from as far as Haryana came over to participate.
Highlights from Sports Day and the few days leading up to it included (1) seeing the girls’ playing cricket on the field of the boys’ school and (2) having the realization that everything we at GDL did to organize the event could have been done by any group of kids. In fact, the cricket tournament was essentially run by three or four local guys! Unfortunately, there were some blocks in the road as well. Most markedly was the number of cheating claims that participants made. Sports Day was definitely case and point that we cannot make everyone happy.
Overall, though, the amount of energy and excitement revolving around Sports Day was really motivating and I’m really proud that we could facilitate an event that the community was so excited about!