Leadership
Magic Bus sees leadership as a quality of a person to achieve and accomplish one’s own goals and motivate others to do so. Self-efficacy plays a major role in how goals, tasks, and challenges are approached. "People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided."
- In Magic Bus a young person goes through an exploratory journey of self and its extension to family and society, which enhances their ‘Self-efficacy’. We provide a young person with positive experiences through Sport, Events, Exposures and outbound activities which enhances their ‘Self-esteem’.
- Magic Bus participated in an international research involving 10 organizations from 6 countries across India and Africa to evaluate the effectiveness of sports to engage and bring positive changes in children and youth. One of the major findings from the Magic Bus data was that Peer Leader had higher Self-esteem and Self-efficacy from Voyagers. The average post test scores of Peer leaders on Self-efficacy were 21.59 as compared to 19.96 of the Voyagers, the average post test scores with regard to Self-esteem were Peer Leader 20.62 and Voyagers 18.78.
Case study: Vaishali is a 21-year-old Community Sports Coach in Babrala Village, Mul Block, Chandrapur district in Maharashtra. She completed high school education three years ago, and was totally involved in supplementing the family’s income (wage labor). The association with MB has transformed her from a quiet and subdued woman to a bubbly and confident leader. After becoming the community sports coach she has initiated various development actions in the village like formation of a youth club, organized rally on the importance of education and health, organized village cleanliness drive etc. She says, “we will register the village youth association for taking up village developmental activities and a have long way to go.” Vaishali is emerging as a strong youth leader.
More stories of success are available in our Case Stories section.
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