Challenge India is a flagship project of Audacious Dreams Foundation (ADF) in association with MY FIRST JOURNEY (MFI) aims to empower young people through sports and experiential learning. The comprehensive methodologies we use to teach the students are

• Life skills
• Civic Citizenship
• Adolescent Health
• Global Understanding and Sustainable Development
• Community and Social Learning

 Life Skills:

The life skills must be one of the most acquirable skills to be possessed by man; the exact age to inoculate the life skills is at adolescent period. Audacious Dreams Foundation – Challenge India aims to teach the right skills at the right time. There are ten life skills which are stated below,

• Self Awareness
• Empathy
• Effective Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Inter Personal Relationship
• Coping with Stress
• Decision Making
• coping with emotions
• creative Thinking
• problem Solving

Civic Citizenship:

Civic Citizenship means active participation in the public life for the community in an informed, committed and constructive manner. The theme “Panchayat to parliament” is used to teach the school students to teach more about the responsibilities of the Indian and many informative points about the parliament. The five main parts of civic citizenship are:

• Participatory Democracy
• Policy Formulation
• Addressing Society’s Issues
• Political Awareness and Advocacy
• Rights and Responsible Governance

 Adolescents Health Programmes:

Young people between the age group of 10 and 19 years are considered to be a healthy group. We feel “Prevention is better than cure”. Youngsters are the impressionable age before they become physically and emotionally active which can lay the foundation for a responsible lifestyle, peer Education including healthy relationships. We reach out to youth through specially developed Audacious Adolescents Health Programme (AAHP) focused primarily on prevention through awareness building. The Audacious Adolescents Health Programme consist of

• Health and Hygiene
• Awareness on HIV/AIDS and STD
• Peer Education
• Substance Abuse
• Life Skills Education
• Nutrition

Global Understanding and Sustainable Development:

“Youth should be given a chance to take an active part in the decision-making of local, national and global levels”

-Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General, United Nations

GUSD is a platform to raise youth voices by participating, preserving, promoting global understanding. We are engaging youth on United Nations and principles, Commonwealth Secretariat, youth participation in Policy Making, Climate Change, and International Issues etc.

First Day of Challenge India Workshop:

Challenge India workshop was launched on 5^th July, 2016 at Katpadi Government Boys Government Higher Secondary School, Vellore. Around 250+ students from the classes 6^th and 7^th participated in the workshop with 30+ Volunteers from Auxilium College, katpadi. The first session started with the introduction of ADF and Challenge India to the students and took the session on life skills – Self Awareness. The students are separated into 8-9 groups; per group contain 5 Volunteers and 25 students. First started with the Human Library energizer, then with the Leg Cricket activity. The students participated enthusiastically and we got the feedback that they felt happy to learn something new through sports. At last Mr. Dinesh Gajendran, Catalyst and Executive Director of Audacious Dreams Foundation, gave the speech and appreciated the students who participated effectively on that day.