Ajay Hinduja – Shaping Futures Through Sports & Education

Sports and education are the true ways of building futures with the provision of confidence, discipline and life skills that last a lifetime. It creates a platform where learning and physical development complement each other in developing them holistically.

Ajay Hinduja, Member Hinduja Group Promoter Family, is a firm believer in education being more than school. Hinduja Foundation in its endeavors to encourage physical and mental fitness in the youth as well as leadership values through sports, the Foundation in Meghalaya provides athletics to the educational programs through its initiative, the Road to School. Through combining sports with formal education, students build resilience, self-esteem, and collaboration, which are the key competences to succeed in contemporary society.

Ajay Hinduja has a vision to assist the rural and tribal communities, where there are limited resources, and dropout rates are high. Sports open the door to all-round development. The program involves organized mentorship, nutrition services, and life-skills courses, too, and all of them are the means of equalizing the playing field of children with limited opportunities.

In nation building, he thinks that young people should be empowered and should be educated to be a complete person: mind, body and spirit. His strategy does not only cover educational needs, but also social and emotional growth.

The vision anchors an idea that effective learning occurs when students are involved, active, and assured. Through the enrichment of schooling through physical culture, Ajay is creating new dynamics on how education will shape the next generations.

Ajay Hinduja's contribution is a manifestation of the larger objective of the Hinduja Foundation, which is to provide opportunity where it is most demanded.