[Music]
today we’re going to talk about the
impact Jamba Castle had on us and then
want to show away how we are planning to
move forward to take this experiment we
were working on over the last two years
into a sustainable model of change while
at the same time our you know we closed
idea and scale so I believe this is a
model which is somehow new in the area
of development aid it’s also you know
quite quite challenging as a company so
I do believe under this seem rewired it
actually perfectly fits first things
first
who have you know what turnbuckle is and
where Chandler is just raise your hands
have you ever heard about humbug hustle
about junghwa junghwa is a small village
in the heart of India in madhya pradesh
probably twelve hundred people are
living there it’s very close to like six
kilometers away from pan now which is
the next biggest town we don’t have any
network coverage there there are no
shops there is no electricity there is
no sanitation there is basically you
know it’s just a village like any other
of these 700,000 villages you do have in
India it’s quite challenging when you
are there you know it’s 50 degrees hot
and you want to work and do something
with the kids
Chunhua castle is actually basically
three things first of all I want to make
very clear that we are not an NGO we are
a for-profit company a not-for-profit
company a Private Limited one though
meaning every
every single rupee or US dollar we earn
we have to reinvest so our strategy is
not defined as an NGO we really run as a
company the second thing is many people
think that we are skatepark we build the
skatepark two years ago in the middle of
nowhere it’s the biggest in India but we
are much much more than a skatepark we
are actually really a model for change
so when we talk about Jaguar we have to
keep in mind that we don’t talk about
skateboarding for skateboarding sake
besides the skatepark which has become a
huge huge canvas for the kids they
simply they love to paint
they love to repaint it they really put
their stories on the park and they take
them off whenever they want to we have
built this bamboo house in addition to
it this bamboo house is a place where
the kids can come where they can build
stuff whatever they want to build we
have a little swing there we have the
first toilets in the village we had in
November a huge competition where kids
from all over India came in so we had to
provide running water which is not as
easy in a place like this so we set up a
solar system which is now powering first
of all our electricity at the at the
site but also we provided drinking water
12 12 months a year with this solar
system and one part of it is also
flowing this toilets we do have a
newspaper we have technology the kids
read on Kindle they’ve kids read on or
learn on tablets and hopefully soon we
do have a library so again Chunhua
castle is not a skate park like
you have a couple of them in Goa or you
have a couple of them in Bangalore we
don’t talk about skateboarding 4k
skateboarding sake for us jeong-bok
hassle is really a model for change
where people like-minded people come
plug-in and play with us we’re really
we’re you know change is not ordered
from above but it’s co-created with the
villagers and the kids themselves we
don’t tell them what to do we rather
listen and we see when they are moving
we guide them and do the things with
them they would love to do so over the
last 18 months the skatepark only opened
in the pearl April 2015 we have really
seen some tangible change change which
is culturally economically and socially
and this all was triggered by the
skatepark while we walked along over the
last two years we find out you know the
people who came and visit us the people
who were helping us to do certain
projects let it be the sponsors other
people coming in who really wanted to
work with us for the better of the
villagers or the kids they all connected
with us and we connected with them on
certain principles on certain values and
these values I’ve put down here are they
became very very important for us so in
everything we do
let it be a very specific project let it
be a cooperation with any other
institution we will make sure that we
had go along these things are let me
point out a few emergence over
authorities what do I mean by this
the kids at our place they don’t have to
ask for permission and we will never
ever tell them what to do they simply
come they take a skateboard or they take
they take a tablet and they can use it
they have access to this so the boxes
where the skateboards are or the boxes
where the tablets are the kids have the
keys they do this self-organized
and they take really very very well they
take care of these things so it’s really
coming from them rather than us telling
them what to do another important thing
is learning over education in my
understanding education is something
would you do to others we do prefer
learning because learning is what we do
to ourselves and this is the much much
better way if you want to succeed in a
specific vision or project disobedience
over compliance for example I think this
is a tough one here in India if you want
to win a Nobel Prize you should never
ever do what you are told so we really
need to create environments in which we
resilient you know faster this this
automatisation of the world we need to
create environments where questions are
allowed where people can speak up
and this is something we very very often
miss when we go into schools or any kind
of yeah educational institutions comm
passes over maps is another one at our
place as I was saying earlier the kids
do things the villagers do things and
they find their own way they navigate
and find their own path
in life rather than us you know telling
them you have to go this way we will see
this as a very important point later
when I will talk about our model school
and then another important one is
practice / theory so we let the kids do
whatever they want to do this is why
this bamboo house is so important for us
they want to build something they simply
can come build you know this thing it’s
broken it doesn’t work they learn they
do it again and they redo as long as it
is working so because they are doing
this because they are doing this by
themselves this learning will stay with
them so this is a shop I’ll give you a
living example so to speak about what
I’ve been talking about earlier Asha is
Inari bossy girl she’s 17 years old
ah she dropped out of school when she
was 15 her life was pretty much
determined she would have got married ah
she would have to deliver children and
then ah yeah she would end up as a
housewife she would work in the fields
until probably she would die but then
came to the skate park Asha she attended
a summer camp we did in June 2015 and
she every day she came besides her
homework she had to do in the fields
with her parents she came every morning
at 6 o’clock to attempt the English
lessons and she did impressively well
there was one guy Vivek he was a teach
for India fellow he stayed with us for 4
weeks only teaching the kids English so
she came every day she did impressively
well and at the end of these four weeks
I asked her uh sure do you want to go to
England to learn better English and of
course she said yes so I basically said
as long as out of the mood out of a mood
but you know now we have to follow track
and was that at what then happened was
actually a very very interesting journey
I thought I would go to the parents and
they would simply say yes but they
clearly said no it took me eight months
to convince Ash’s parents to let her go
so I brought in the Maharaja of Varna
I brought in her favorite teacher I put
in a lot of people they really made a
parents at their doorsteps they talked
to me nothing happened I was you know
really in the heat of the day I went to
see Ash’s mother in the fields I’ve
spoken with her I was chasing home by
bullet her father you know every time he
saw me he was somehow sneaking away not
because he didn’t want to speak to me so
I really thought we are you know on a
road which would lead nowhere
but Asha was very very resistant you
always said Malika I want to go this is
actually picture during this summer camp
and this is Asha at home with her
parents so Joey said Lika I want to go
so this is what kept me going one day I
really don’t know what happened
but finally the parents agreed it was
really 8 months hard work I think I’ve
been there a hundred times one day they
said yes and the father like we do at
the skate park we always give high-five
when we come so he wanted you know to
give me high-five after he said she’s
allowed to go and then I said wait a
minute the next thing you have to do is
you also have to promise when Asha is
coming back from England that you are
not going to marry her off that you
rather gets a job with us and becomes a
role model for other girls in the
village until you Creed and since this
day the parents really they stuck
they’re with their yes they were even
helping then other kids to go on the
safe journey today Asha she was the
first in the village who got a passport
she’s holding a passport behind the
process of getting the visa for her we
have all the money for her travel so
she’s basically ready to go for this
village this was a huge huge thing first
of all thank you first of all it was us
who walked our talk we didn’t let her
fall down but usually the people do in
the villages second uh she’s a girl and
she’s a nerdy bossy girl usually in this
part of the world it would be a boy and
would certainly be the Yadav boy because
grf is the caste which dominates in the
village so this entire process and this
is why I can say today I’m very happy it
took so long
broke down barriers and I would say
today going along with many other
examples we had we have solved this
issue of cause at least around the
skatepark Ash’s Passport so to put this
Asha Asha
story in the context of what I was
trying to say earlier that we want to
develop a decentralized model which
really becomes sustainable to do
everything we do in JAMA but we have
received last year during our
competition our MP was there we brought
in like 20 kids from all over India from
Trivandrum Kolkata Delhi Varanasi Bombay
they all came to us for three days
celebrating skateboarding during the
award ceremony our MP was somehow blown
away and
announcement you’re gonna get one
whoo-hoo-ho piece for this year so we
still don’t know how the money will come
in but we still hope that it’s coming
and I’m very optimistic and this is what
we are planning to do in a decentralized
model first thing we’re gonna setup is
what I call a model school so our model
school has basically five pillars we
have the government school which will
add on a couple of learning hubs this is
where our partner Park City
we see them as a learning partner will
come in so we will improve the skills of
the teachers and at the same time we
will provide manpower that we do have
constantly people there where the kids
can come one pillar of the model school
six is the government school improved
plus Learning Labs from our side the
second thing is the Arts in all of the
schools you will find any art programs
in the rural area so we have this and
this will be poured in by audit role and
by this
adivasi village they are very very good
in wool dance and music third thing is
sport in our case it’s skateboarding
fourth thing is the bamboo house is the
makerspace I think it’s very very
crucial that the kids learn to do things
and the fifth spot is a gisaeng school
because 90% of the kids are working with
their parents in the field so they do
need to know what are the best practices
how can I avoid that we don’t have water
at the end of the month April we were
running out of water this year in April
and the first rain came in the first
week of to life so this was a kind of
disaster has to do with the way they do
farming so these are the five pillars of
a model school we want to set up and we
want to start with the one Kivar we’re
gonna get this is junghwa castle
sorry for overtime
[Applause]
today we’re going to talk about the
impact Jamba Castle had on us and then
want to show away how we are planning to
move forward to take this experiment we
were working on over the last two years
into a sustainable model of change while
at the same time our you know we closed
idea and scale so I believe this is a
model which is somehow new in the area
of development aid it’s also you know
quite quite challenging as a company so
I do believe under this seem rewired it
actually perfectly fits first things
first
who have you know what turnbuckle is and
where Chandler is just raise your hands
have you ever heard about humbug hustle
about junghwa junghwa is a small village
in the heart of India in madhya pradesh
probably twelve hundred people are
living there it’s very close to like six
kilometers away from pan now which is
the next biggest town we don’t have any
network coverage there there are no
shops there is no electricity there is
no sanitation there is basically you
know it’s just a village like any other
of these 700,000 villages you do have in
India it’s quite challenging when you
are there you know it’s 50 degrees hot
and you want to work and do something
with the kids
Chunhua castle is actually basically
three things first of all I want to make
very clear that we are not an NGO we are
a for-profit company a not-for-profit
company a Private Limited one though
meaning every
every single rupee or US dollar we earn
we have to reinvest so our strategy is
not defined as an NGO we really run as a
company the second thing is many people
think that we are skatepark we build the
skatepark two years ago in the middle of
nowhere it’s the biggest in India but we
are much much more than a skatepark we
are actually really a model for change
so when we talk about Jaguar we have to
keep in mind that we don’t talk about
skateboarding for skateboarding sake
besides the skatepark which has become a
huge huge canvas for the kids they
simply they love to paint
they love to repaint it they really put
their stories on the park and they take
them off whenever they want to we have
built this bamboo house in addition to
it this bamboo house is a place where
the kids can come where they can build
stuff whatever they want to build we
have a little swing there we have the
first toilets in the village we had in
November a huge competition where kids
from all over India came in so we had to
provide running water which is not as
easy in a place like this so we set up a
solar system which is now powering first
of all our electricity at the at the
site but also we provided drinking water
12 12 months a year with this solar
system and one part of it is also
flowing this toilets we do have a
newspaper we have technology the kids
read on Kindle they’ve kids read on or
learn on tablets and hopefully soon we
do have a library so again Chunhua
castle is not a skate park like
you have a couple of them in Goa or you
have a couple of them in Bangalore we
don’t talk about skateboarding 4k
skateboarding sake for us jeong-bok
hassle is really a model for change
where people like-minded people come
plug-in and play with us we’re really
we’re you know change is not ordered
from above but it’s co-created with the
villagers and the kids themselves we
don’t tell them what to do we rather
listen and we see when they are moving
we guide them and do the things with
them they would love to do so over the
last 18 months the skatepark only opened
in the pearl April 2015 we have really
seen some tangible change change which
is culturally economically and socially
and this all was triggered by the
skatepark while we walked along over the
last two years we find out you know the
people who came and visit us the people
who were helping us to do certain
projects let it be the sponsors other
people coming in who really wanted to
work with us for the better of the
villagers or the kids they all connected
with us and we connected with them on
certain principles on certain values and
these values I’ve put down here are they
became very very important for us so in
everything we do
let it be a very specific project let it
be a cooperation with any other
institution we will make sure that we
had go along these things are let me
point out a few emergence over
authorities what do I mean by this
the kids at our place they don’t have to
ask for permission and we will never
ever tell them what to do they simply
come they take a skateboard or they take
they take a tablet and they can use it
they have access to this so the boxes
where the skateboards are or the boxes
where the tablets are the kids have the
keys they do this self-organized
and they take really very very well they
take care of these things so it’s really
coming from them rather than us telling
them what to do another important thing
is learning over education in my
understanding education is something
would you do to others we do prefer
learning because learning is what we do
to ourselves and this is the much much
better way if you want to succeed in a
specific vision or project disobedience
over compliance for example I think this
is a tough one here in India if you want
to win a Nobel Prize you should never
ever do what you are told so we really
need to create environments in which we
resilient you know faster this this
automatisation of the world we need to
create environments where questions are
allowed where people can speak up
and this is something we very very often
miss when we go into schools or any kind
of yeah educational institutions comm
passes over maps is another one at our
place as I was saying earlier the kids
do things the villagers do things and
they find their own way they navigate
and find their own path
in life rather than us you know telling
them you have to go this way we will see
this as a very important point later
when I will talk about our model school
and then another important one is
practice / theory so we let the kids do
whatever they want to do this is why
this bamboo house is so important for us
they want to build something they simply
can come build you know this thing it’s
broken it doesn’t work they learn they
do it again and they redo as long as it
is working so because they are doing
this because they are doing this by
themselves this learning will stay with
them so this is a shop I’ll give you a
living example so to speak about what
I’ve been talking about earlier Asha is
Inari bossy girl she’s 17 years old
ah she dropped out of school when she
was 15 her life was pretty much
determined she would have got married ah
she would have to deliver children and
then ah yeah she would end up as a
housewife she would work in the fields
until probably she would die but then
came to the skate park Asha she attended
a summer camp we did in June 2015 and
she every day she came besides her
homework she had to do in the fields
with her parents she came every morning
at 6 o’clock to attempt the English
lessons and she did impressively well
there was one guy Vivek he was a teach
for India fellow he stayed with us for 4
weeks only teaching the kids English so
she came every day she did impressively
well and at the end of these four weeks
I asked her uh sure do you want to go to
England to learn better English and of
course she said yes so I basically said
as long as out of the mood out of a mood
but you know now we have to follow track
and was that at what then happened was
actually a very very interesting journey
I thought I would go to the parents and
they would simply say yes but they
clearly said no it took me eight months
to convince Ash’s parents to let her go
so I brought in the Maharaja of Varna
I brought in her favorite teacher I put
in a lot of people they really made a
parents at their doorsteps they talked
to me nothing happened I was you know
really in the heat of the day I went to
see Ash’s mother in the fields I’ve
spoken with her I was chasing home by
bullet her father you know every time he
saw me he was somehow sneaking away not
because he didn’t want to speak to me so
I really thought we are you know on a
road which would lead nowhere
but Asha was very very resistant you
always said Malika I want to go this is
actually picture during this summer camp
and this is Asha at home with her
parents so Joey said Lika I want to go
so this is what kept me going one day I
really don’t know what happened
but finally the parents agreed it was
really 8 months hard work I think I’ve
been there a hundred times one day they
said yes and the father like we do at
the skate park we always give high-five
when we come so he wanted you know to
give me high-five after he said she’s
allowed to go and then I said wait a
minute the next thing you have to do is
you also have to promise when Asha is
coming back from England that you are
not going to marry her off that you
rather gets a job with us and becomes a
role model for other girls in the
village until you Creed and since this
day the parents really they stuck
they’re with their yes they were even
helping then other kids to go on the
safe journey today Asha she was the
first in the village who got a passport
she’s holding a passport behind the
process of getting the visa for her we
have all the money for her travel so
she’s basically ready to go for this
village this was a huge huge thing first
of all thank you first of all it was us
who walked our talk we didn’t let her
fall down but usually the people do in
the villages second uh she’s a girl and
she’s a nerdy bossy girl usually in this
part of the world it would be a boy and
would certainly be the Yadav boy because
grf is the caste which dominates in the
village so this entire process and this
is why I can say today I’m very happy it
took so long
broke down barriers and I would say
today going along with many other
examples we had we have solved this
issue of cause at least around the
skatepark Ash’s Passport so to put this
Asha Asha
story in the context of what I was
trying to say earlier that we want to
develop a decentralized model which
really becomes sustainable to do
everything we do in JAMA but we have
received last year during our
competition our MP was there we brought
in like 20 kids from all over India from
Trivandrum Kolkata Delhi Varanasi Bombay
they all came to us for three days
celebrating skateboarding during the
award ceremony our MP was somehow blown
away and
announcement you’re gonna get one
whoo-hoo-ho piece for this year so we
still don’t know how the money will come
in but we still hope that it’s coming
and I’m very optimistic and this is what
we are planning to do in a decentralized
model first thing we’re gonna setup is
what I call a model school so our model
school has basically five pillars we
have the government school which will
add on a couple of learning hubs this is
where our partner Park City
we see them as a learning partner will
come in so we will improve the skills of
the teachers and at the same time we
will provide manpower that we do have
constantly people there where the kids
can come one pillar of the model school
six is the government school improved
plus Learning Labs from our side the
second thing is the Arts in all of the
schools you will find any art programs
in the rural area so we have this and
this will be poured in by audit role and
by this
adivasi village they are very very good
in wool dance and music third thing is
sport in our case it’s skateboarding
fourth thing is the bamboo house is the
makerspace I think it’s very very
crucial that the kids learn to do things
and the fifth spot is a gisaeng school
because 90% of the kids are working with
their parents in the field so they do
need to know what are the best practices
how can I avoid that we don’t have water
at the end of the month April we were
running out of water this year in April
and the first rain came in the first
week of to life so this was a kind of
disaster has to do with the way they do
farming so these are the five pillars of
a model school we want to set up and we
want to start with the one Kivar we’re
gonna get this is junghwa castle
sorry for overtime
[Applause]
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