HELPING MUMBAI'S POOR

By Vic Mills, who is helping a project to get old Lincolnshire cricket kit out to India where it will be put to very good use.

Three weeks behind schedule, and perhaps a little rustic around the edges, but I’m happy to report that Project Front Foot in now online. You can find us on Project Front Foot or simply Google - Project Front Foot.
Given that I’m prone to increasing bouts of ELT (Extreme Luddite Tendencies) and my IT chum, Neil, is a technician and not a web designer, then I think we (or rather he) has made a damn good fist of it. I’m assured, too, that such a website remains a work in progress. Which is just as well as the revision work starts next week when Neil gets back off hols.
Meanwhile, the business end of the project begins. With the website up and running I can now start to badger the airlines to ship the kit out to Mumbai. And, of course, the collecting of equipment continues.
I was at the Lindum only last night taking possession of two bags of kit from the 2nd Lincoln Scouts. So good on them. With the season drawing to a slow and decidedly wet close, I’d appreciate if you’d continue to spread the word. The added bonus now being that you can simply ask folk to log on to the PFF website.

FROM THE WEBSITE

Project Front Foot is a kit for kids' campaign. With your help we aim to collect old, out-grown, cast-off and second-hand cricket kit and equipment and take it into Mumbai's largest slum, Dharavi. The second phase, once the kit has been distributed to schools and children, will be to put in place and run a series of coaching clinics.
Hot off the press, and inspired in no small measure by the movie Slumdog Millionaire, Project Front Foot was conceived in Mumbai in February of this year. Our co-partners, Reality Tours & Travel, successfully run the Dharavi community centre providing, amongst other things. English and IT classes for the slum children.
As diverse and extreme an experience as India is, cricket above everything else remains a constant unifying and uplifting factor; evidence this by the sheer volume of impromptu games that take place in Dharavi's streets, alleyways and on what waste ground exists. Our aim in providing kit and coaching is to add a little quality and joy to lives that have precious little.

If you wish to donate, help in any other way or just simply ask a question, then please contact us via the following method...

Alternatively you can telephone Project Leader, Vic Mills on 07956250069. Or email here, now through this link
CONTACT VIC MILLS