A boy on a pitch is a boy off the wrong street. We learned that the year we built our first cricket field on a piece of donated farmland — half a kilometre from a village where unemployment had begun to harden into something darker.

The pitch wasn't perfect. The boundary was a row of bricks. The pavilion was a borrowed tent. But within six months, the village had a team. Within a year, two of those boys were playing district level. Within three years, one of them came back as a coach.

Today we support cricket coaching camps, kabaddi leagues, athletics meets and chess clubs across rural Warangal. We provide equipment, uniforms, travel grants, and — most importantly — fields that are levelled, lit, and protected.

We invest in coaches who don't humiliate. We invest in nutrition kits so a hungry talent doesn't disappear before being seen. We invest in girls' teams because Telangana has world-class women athletes hidden in villages we are still discovering.

Over a thousand young people have moved through our sports programmes. Some have gone on to state-level competitions. Many have gone on to lead their villages. All of them, we hope, carry the same lesson with them — discipline beats luck, and community beats fear.