In Cricket, sometimes you can score without picking a bat and walking onto the crease or before spinning the ball and send a bouncer down the wicket or even when the covers are on the grass and still the teams are dressing up. All you require is the cause, your faith in that cause and the readiness to give of yourself to supplement that cause. This week Nita Ambani has started doing this, scoring for her IPL team Mumbai Indians, despite the fact that the third season of IPL Twenty 20 event is still 17 days away.
Nita is supporting 5 NGO’s through an initiative called “Education for All” and in this plan Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan & Co. are helping her to provide education to the unprivileged kids. On Sunday it was launched across the t.v. channels across the nation. No doubt Sachin, Bhajji and Zaheer are taking part in this but they all appear in 15-seconds advertisement while the real stars of this Mumbai Indians promo are the children who make an attractive appearance with Nita at the end. Everyone should look for it.
This campaign is just like American cycling legend Lance Armstrong did for cancer patients in 2004 and now the Mumbai Indians are selling blue silicone wristbands signed by Tendulkar and other greats from the team that say ‘Education for All’. At the sale every band some amount of money goes towards the NGOs Pratham, Ummeed, Akanksha, Teach for India and Nanhi Kali which are working in providing education underprivileged children. Nita is using her team’s huge fan base across the country to boost the sales and it’s all done for a charitable cause. Nita said, “It’s a small and humble effort,” and she believes education is the key that unlocks the hidden potential of every child.
We should not forget that once she was a school teacher but now she runs the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, one of the world’s premier holistic education institutions which provide a robust, all-round learning that stresses on values of humanity as much as it does on academics. In the evenings, this prestigious institute becomes an education centre for Akanksha’s underprivileged kids. Nita takes care of the education of 15,000 other children.
Nita said, “One of India’s big needs is for every underprivileged kid, especially the girl child, to know how to read and write.” This cause is very dear to Nita and all three stars of Mumbai Indians Sachin, Zaheer and Harbhajan were happy endorsing the promo.
Nita, who sits cheering her team whenever it is playing, she also thought that she will take 120 of these kids to see every home match. She also planned to hold a special benefit match for them with her players.