The Hockey Basis’s mission is to alter lives around the globe through hockey, plain and easy.  We do this in 3 ways:

1. Present entry to the sport the place it struggles to take maintain by tools donations and offering coaches to communities
2. Instructing the sport in ways in which instill a lifelong ardour for the game and growth elementary abilities and rules on & off the ice: integrity, accountability, vital considering, resilience & teamwork
3. Help neighborhood growth past hockey, specializing in schooling, social, financial and infrastructural wants of the communities we serve. We harness the teachings of hockey to empower youth and foster worldwide understanding and cooperation.

Whereas we’re captivated with every side of our mission, and love making an influence on the lives of the gamers on the ice, the neighborhood growth part of our mission is core to our want to alter lives…hockey is simply the entry in to the neighborhood.

A couple of years in the past we got here in to contact with the oldsters from ILSC, particularly, Jason Flaming, who was then-director of the Delhi campus of the incredible language faculty based in Vancouver, British Columbia.  Being a Canadian-based group, the oldsters at ILSC love ice hockey, and after they discovered about hockey in Ladakh, they ran an tools assortment drive to donate to gamers in Ladakh.

By sustained teaching growth applications, THF has donated over 6,000 items of hockey tools to native golf equipment and associations round India up to now to make sure as many gamers as attainable have entry to the sport.  A good portion of this gear was collected by ILSC campuses throughout North America and turned over to our workforce to make sure the gear will get into the palms of those who want it most. 

We may’ve been content material to maintain this partnership going as is, however for each ILSC & THF, there’s a joint consciousness that there’s at all times extra to do.  ILSC has been a vital to The Hockey Basis’s success since we turned companions, and so we’re devoted to doing all we are able to to assist them obtain their very related mission: “To maintain growing ILSC as one of many most interesting faculties for language and profession schooling the place individuals have wonderful and transformative studying and dwelling experiences.”

Earlier in 2015, I had a name with Jason (now primarily based in Melbourne, Australia) and Nadine, from the ILSC campus in San Francisco, USA.  They needed to refocus their efforts on offering books and academic supplies to colleges in Ladakh, constructing upon a beautiful ebook donation we made to SECMOL throughout our 2015 season, and requested that The Hockey Basis assist in guaranteeing books could make it to at the least three faculties across the area.

Properly…we did simply that!