Ananya Kamboj is a Global Citizen, and a 16-year-old girl. She happens to be an ambassador of football, peace, SDGs, gender equality, and youth empowerment. Her wish is to take the spirit of hope, togetherness, and inspiration to millions of children across India and South Asia and make this world a better place to live in.

Ananya actively advocates for global challenges such as climate change while also using sports to promote gender equality and women empowerment. She is the founder of 'Sports to Lead', an initiative that focuses on using sports as a medium to encourage learning and breed leadership and SDGs among the youth in urban and rural India

For the last four years, she has been selected to represent India as a Young Journalist at the global Football for Friendship (F4F) social program. Football for Friendship is an annual International Children's social program that unites children of different nationalities, different genders, and different physical abilities. The goal of the project is the development of children’s football, fostering tolerance, and respect for different cultures and nationalities among children from different countries. The key values that the participants support and promote are friendship, equality, fairness, health, peace, devotion, victory, traditions, and honor.

In 2018, this sporty girl was invited to Moscow as a special guest at the world premiere of my book ‘My Journey from Mohali to St. Petersburg‘, an anthology of twenty-one stories. These stories are based on the fundamental human values that she has learned during the program. It is a wonderful platform to celebrate friendship through the unifying power of football.

She was awarded the best young journalist award for my effort in spreading the values of the program through this book.

The book presents a holistic picture of the good life, which transcends the prevalent narrow understanding of what constitutes success, fulfillment, and happiness in life. It offers a fresh interpretation of sports through human values which collectively enrich the different dimensions of life. A harmonious realization of all these values helps us grow as truly and fully human persons.

Check more details about the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1643242237/

Ananya Kamboj's social media links are as follows:

Facebook -  https://facebook.com/KambojAnanya

Twitter - https://twitter.com/KambojAnanya

Instagram -  https://instagram.com/KambojAnanya

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/ananyakambojofficial

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