Austen Murrow, who is in her first year at University of Virginia, returned home to work with Ron Swanson and Chess Without Borders on the documentary “A Future for Meher”. Last year Austen and her grandmother spent 4 months living in Govindpuri in India and working with Meher and many other children from Project Why. Austen has remarkable footage of her experiences while she was volunteering there. As many of you already know Project Why is an organization that provides services to families living in the slums in Delhi, India.
Adding the new footage to the documentary helps the chess community stay updated and informed on the impact we have had through our network of people, and contributions. In the footage the children at Project Why can be seen wearing clothes sent from chess students in the clubs at Chess Without Borders. Many friends from Alexian donated the rugs the children are using in the schools at Govindpuri. Austen donated the white boards in the school. Meher can be seen saying hi to Nina Sethi (who taught there for a year) and thanking us for sending her to school.
We are grateful for grandparents like Austen’ s Grandmother who have filmed the video and volunteered for Chess Without Borders. The chess program would not have been possible without the contributions from many other grandparents.
Through their initiative and drive students like Austen make opportunities possible for younger students to create or follow. Chess Without Borders has won awards, honors and individual scholarships for the impact of this project. Next summer 4 teenagers will attend the UN Youth Assembly in NY qualifying because of our combined work done for this humanitarian project.
On the 25th of Feb we are hosting the 4th annual Hough School Chess Tournament. At this event we will film our chess students and volunteers. 100% of the proceeds will be raised for Meher’s continued education. Please email me at chesswob@gmail.com if you can make any form of contribution in terms of support, food supplies or financial towards making this a success. So far we have contributed almost $26,000 towards Meher’s surgeries and education.
Austen and Ron working on the documentary.
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