Volunteer for India 2.0

Volunteer for India (VFI) started as a seed idea back in 2019-20 when Transformational Sports received a grant from the U.S. Consulate General Chennai to create India's first-ever youth volunteer network. Before COVID, back in February 2020, we gathered the first VFI cohort for a week-long workshop and used sports, gender & inclusion teachings to form the backbone of their mission.

We continued to help VFI grow in 2021, nurturing it into a full-fledged organization and launching the first Volship program. Volship, a 6 week volunteer program, ran across 9 cities in India, leading selected participants through the ideation and implementation of a community volunteer project. Though Volship was initially planned as a six week program, it was later extended to nine weeks to accommodate the challenges brought about by the second wave of COVID.