About the Enabling Leadership Project

Enabling Leadership is a global non-profit founded in the Netherlands. The organization equips children from underserved communities with the life and leadership skills they need to succeed in school, the workforce and life. Recognising that millions of young people lack opportunities to build critical human skills such as communication, collaboration, problem-solving and resilience, Enabling Leadership uses experiential mediums like music (Enabling Leadership Create), football (Enabling Leadership Play) and LEGO®-type building blocks (Enabling Leadership Build) as innovative platforms to develop the critical 21st-century skills essential for education, employment and upward economic mobility. Today, the EL programs are implemented by partner entities in India, Cambodia and Kenya and reach over 10,000 adolescents.

Pragatee Foundation is the implementation partner for the Enabling Leadership programmes in India, delivering these evidence-based interventions in the local government and low- income schools to help children build the skills, confidence and agency to break the cycle of poverty.

Key Programs

The EL Play program works in government & low-income schools to help children garner multiple benefits of leadership development using football as a medium.

The program uses the power of team sports and a unique mixed-gender format to develop essential Life skills. The curriculum combines life skills with mixed-gender football drills and participation in a proprietary regional league.

The EL Create program uses group-based music learning, songwriting and composition and stage performances to equip children with the skills necessary for them to succeed in the future.

Through rhythm, melody and storytelling, children learn to: work in mixed-gender teams, express emotions and ideas, build empathy and active listening, take initiative, co-create and lead.

EL Build is a hands-on, play-based program that uses experiential free play to build essential life skills: problem-solving, collaboration, confidence and leadership while sparking curiosity and confidence in STEM among children from under-resourced communities.

Through mixed-gender teams, EL Build empowers girls to lead and question while reshaping boys’ perspectives — fostering equity, respect and shared leadership.