This is the biggest moment of my life” said Khushi Yadav, the 17-year-old daughter of a Head Constable in Delhi Police, who along with her seven teammates recently represented Police Families Welfare Society(PFWS) in All India Inter-School Shooting Championship in Varanasi where 1,300 contestants
from different States participated.
Within six months of training and mentoring program by PFWS, all eight selected participants of Phase-I, PFWS-Mission Olympics 2017, were able to show their talent and won medals while also qualified for Pre-Nationals. PFWS - Mission Olympics, 2017 is an ambitious social initiative of Police Families Welfare Society to promote "Empowerment of Youth through Sports" which has come to the stage where selected participants with training have started participating in different Competitions.
"Screening Phase - II is another series of efforts to tap the potential of talented, deserving & needy children of our community to help them realize their potential and get medals for Country. 5 selected games - Athletics, Badminton, Football, Wrestling and Shooting have been promoted along with Kabaddi to create sports achievers. Selected children of Screening Phase-I will be trained for 4 weeks, then they would be scrutinised, and they shall go through a series of competitions, workshops and awareness programs to help them develop a successful charter for themselves" Delhi Police spokesperson Madhur Verma said.
President PFWS, Mrs. Suchana Patnaik had been clear about her strategy that there would not be any shortcut to success to create International achievers Mrs. Patnaik said that with like minded people and sponsors and resource pooling, all 5 games shall produce medalist for PFWS Mission Olympics.