SPORTS COACHES

The Setco Foundation team is dedicated, conscientious and ever ready to learn. The field teams comprises of community health workers, pre-school teachers, child development aides, specialists, and social workers who have ensured that the programs create a dramatic shift in the health and nutrition status of expectant and nursing mothers, infants and pre-schoolers as well as better educational levels, and financial and social empowerment of the women and the adolescent girls and boys in the communities.

Mr. CHETAN SHELOKAR
Senior Sports Coach

Mr. PARMANAND BELBHAKTE
Sports Trainer

Known as the star coach of Setco Foundation, Chetan’s involvement in the sports programme has created nothing short of wonders. He is looked up to by all the adolescents in the community and is a role model for them all. Not only has Chetan managed to involve girls from the community but he has earned immense respect amongst the parents of the children he teaches. Today, Chetan’s sports trainees have entered district and state level competitions and have won numerous awards. He has been instrumental in mobilizing adolescents and adults in playing a greater role in supporting the various initiatives of the foundation especially in the area of sanitation.
Prior to being an intern at Setco Foundation, Parmanand worked for Shri Shivaji Physical Education Institute in Amravati as a physical trainer. He specializes in boxing and kabbadi. His other areas of interest include sports such as volleyball, athletics, basketball, kho-kho, taekwondo and yoga. He has been responsible in building competitive talent in the community.Apart from the usual sports training that he provides to the adolescents and children in Kalol, he has made a special effort to teach them yoga.