#33 Ashreen Mridha 🇧🇩 - Empowering women through basketball in Bangladesh with Deshi Ballers Life Line - Stories of Changemakers for the SDGs

🇧🇩 Ashreen Mridha is the former captain of Bangladesh national basketball team and co-founder of Deshi Ballers, a women-led organization on a mission to: 
-empower women and girls through basketball;
-advocate for equal rights for women to access sports;
-and promote basketball in a cricket and football-dominated country.
🏀 She walks us through her journey from discovering basketball as a school kid to creating the first university’s women league and joining the first-ever national women team.
💪 She shares how basketball taught her the values of teamwork, care and discipline, how she grew the Deshi Ballers community and her dreams to set up the first national women’s basketball league in Bangladesh!
Hope you are as excited as me to learn more about empowerment through sports! :)
❤️ TIMELINE: 
12’ - The pioneer of women basketball in Bangladesh
25’ - Basketball teaches you teamwork and discipline
36’ - A good coach can train you to get better, a great coach can change your life
46’ - Learning from the San Antonio’s Spurs through the Global Sports Mentoring Program
56’ - The birth of Deshi Ballers and its recipe for success
73’ - Impact stories of Deshi Ballers
94’ - Empowering the next generation of women basketball players in Bangladesh
🗒️ REFERENCES:
Follow Deshi Ballers on Facebook and Instagram
About the Global Sports Mentoring Program.
Netflix’s show about coaching - The Playbook.
Connect with Ashreen on LinkedIn.
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