Stairs Celebrates Olympic Day with National Volleyball Championship

• Olympic Day is celebrated on 23rd June across the globe
• National Volleyball Cup to be held from 23rd June to 28th June 2014
• Event to be flagged off from Delhi
• Teams from UP, HP, Haryana and Delhi to participate

Stairs, the NGO working towards sports, education and health of underprivileged children is organizing an Inter-state National Volleyball Cup as a part of its flagship program Uflex Khelo Dilli, from 23rd June to 28th June, 2014 to mark the Olympic Day. The event will be inaugurated at Malviya Nagar Andolan Park, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi by Stairs President Mr. Anil Upadhyay. The final match of the tournament will also be held at the same venue on 28th June.

Along with Delhi the tournament will also be held in Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana. The qualifying matches will be held across these states in close to 2000 villages. The qualifying teams from these villages will be playing for the final leg which will be held in Delhi. The participating teams will comprise of youngsters who have been playing at various Stairs centres spread across the country.

Strongly supporting this initiative by Stairs, Uflex Ltd., India's largest flexible packaging company will bear all the expenses of the tournament.

Uflex Khelo Dilli is a joint philanthropic endeavour of Uflex Ltd., India’s largest flexible packaging company and Stairs. It was conceptualized in 2011 with the aim of providing free space, infrastructure and sports equipment to the less fortunate children. Out of the more than 1, 50,000 youngsters playing at Stairs centres across the country, 15,000 are active at the 29 Delhi centres alone.

Olympic Day was introduced in 1948 to commemorate the birth of the modern Olympic Games on 23 June 1894 at the Sorbonne in Paris. Thousands of people participate in sports activities, such as races, exhibitions, music and educational seminars. Over the last two decades, the event has helped to spread the Olympic ideals to every corner of the world.

About Stairs:

Stairs is a New Delhi-headquartered not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation (NGO) which aims to empower the underprivileged youth of India. It is committed to providing opportunities to the young Indians so that they can lead a life of dignity. The NGO, which started in 2005, nurtures the talented sportsmen at the bottom-of-the-pyramid of the society so that they can use this ability as a mean of earning a living and pursue it as a career. Stairs also organises educational and health programmes. It educates the youth about the dignity of labour and equality irrespective of caste, creed or sex. It has nearly 300 centres spread across six states.

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