How good is this AussieX for Canada and India

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The Aussie X Foundation is committed to empowering kids through sport in at-risk zones throughout the world. As a charitable organization we rely on grants, sponsorship and generous donations to make a difference.

What have we accomplished so far?

■In 2008, Aussie X partnered with the Ontario Trillium Foundation and was awarded a grant to develop a Junior Australian Football League within three at-risk zones of the Toronto Police Department. The three-year program has been so successful that Aussie X has been nominated for a Great Grant award. The winner will be announced in March 2012.
■In 2011, the Aussie X team visited schools in Montego Bay, Jamaica, educating over 1000 kids. Later that year, the team travelled to Nairobi, Kenya and taught 3 200 kids the life-changing power of sport and community.
There is still so much more that can be done!

How can your donation help?

■On our trip to Trinity Elementary in the slum region of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya we discovered that over 300 children go to school hungry. Aussie X will fund a feeding program that will ensure those children have breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea provided every day. To do this it costs under $30 to feed each child for an entire year!
■The Junior Australian Football League model developed over three years with a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation can now be implemented throughout Toronto, offering kids in at-risk zones the chance to be empowered by sport.
■For just $6000 Aussie X will organise a field, scoreboard, maintenance and the Aussie X program for a war-ravaged community in Rwanda.
■In 2012 Aussie X will visit India and South America, hoping to repeat what was accomplished in Kenya.

http://www.theaussiex.com/ax-foundation ... -outreach/

The Junior League targets youth groups in middle and high schools across Ontario. Delivered by experienced teachers, the specifically tailored programs teach the fundamental skills of footy while also learning some interesting facts about Australia and their national sport. More than 60,000 kids have participated in the Aussie X in school Programs in 250 Ontario schools over the last 12 months! These programs are now running in British Columbia and International expansion now includes Jamaica, South America and Australia. It provides them with weekly training/coaching sessions, weekly matches to play and a club environment that binds communities. These programs provide a safe venue and mentors for these kids, all while teaching them the awesome game of Australian Football! At a cost of only $20 per player (the Trillium Foundation funds the remaining cost) for the entire 8 weeks, it is a wonderful opportunity for any boy or girl.

http://www.theaussiex.com/junior-austra ... ue-summer/


Back in 2009, Aussie X was part of a collaborative that was awarded an OTF grant for $151,200 to work with the Toronto Police Service. Together the collaborative set up sports leagues teaching Aussie Rules football to youth in three Toronto at-risk neighbourhoods. The initiative, to use a sports program to develop life skills and build confidence, grew to reach 110,000 students. The project, run over three years, has generated the first Junior Australian Football league in Ontario in the summer of 2011.

Fast forward to November 2011. The founders of 'Aussie X' parlayed their successful collaboration with OTF grantee the Ontario Australian Football League into a spot on CBC Television's popular show, Dragon's Den. Aussie X founders were on the set of Dragon's Den to ask for a $150,000 investment in their company to further expand their corporate teambuilding enterprise, as the revenue-generating side of the business, with a view to being able to offer more with school programs at less cost to participating schools.

http://www.otf.ca/en/newsCentre/aussie.asp



AGNIBESH DAS | New Delhi, November 1, 2011 17:43
The game arrived in India in 2008 when Aussie cricket captain Ricky Ponting promoted it during his stint with the Kolkata Knight Riders. Since then, a team from India (there is no national team yet) has participated in two World Cups in Sydney. A governing body has also been set up with the team’s 21-year-old captain, Sudip Chakraborty, as the president.

AFL-India has not yet been ratified by the government. “We need a presence in five different states for that to happen. So far, we have boards in West Bengal and Kerala. Work has been done in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu and we hope to set up boards in there soon,” says Chakraborty.

The Kerala board has already been ratified by the Kerala Olympic Association, thanks to the efforts of Rajiv Tharani, sports co-ordinator of the Olympic Association of Kerala. He says: “Kerala was the first state to register an Australian Football organisation in India in 2009. PA Hamsa is the president. We are planning to rope in people from neighbouring states, including footballers from Goa, and float a South Indian platform soon.”

Australia has of course been hugely enthusiastic about promoting the sport in India. The first Indian team that went Down Under was supported in a big way by AFL with funds, playing kit and jerseys, training facilities and official dinners.

That apart, a massive campaign is about to be launched at the school level by the Australian company AussiX, which runs a training programme in Canada, where they have initiated more than 70,000 school students in the game.

An AussiX official says: “In India, we will focus on sports that interest the local community (not just Aussie Rules), and our model is to partner with sports service providers (NGOs).” AussiX’s first partner is the Abhinav Bindra Foundation.

“Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan School has 117 outlets throughout India. Ryan International School has a similar number. We have approached them. They will help us popularise the sport. Once that set-up comes through. AussiX will be running the programme in these schools,” reveals Chakraborty.