What is meant by Magic Bus?
Magic Bus works with children and young people taking them on a journey from Childhood to Livelihood and out of poverty. By enabling children to complete secondary education, delay their age of marriage, and skilling young people to be in jobs, we are helping move a generation out of the vicious cycle of poverty.
What is the slogan of Magic Bus?
to help change young lives forever.
Who founded Magic Bus?
Matthew Spacie
Magic Bus/Founders
Blog. MagicBus: Founder-CEO Matthew Spacie (MBE) to run with the Olympic Torch. Founded in 1999, Magic Bus is a section 25 not-for-profit company that works with children and young adults from some of the most marginalised communities in India.
Where did the Magic Bus start?
In 1999, Matthew founded Magic Bus with a group of street and slum-dwelling children from Mumbai. It was an opportunity for these children to engage in sports as a momentary relief from their day-to-day challenges.
What is the role of Magic Bus mentor?
The idea is to encourage children, girls in particular, to become agents of change, a concept our mentors are familiar with since the Magic Bus sport for development programme is about empowering youth to challenge and break the restraints of tradition and poverty, to rewrite their future.
What year was the Magic Bus born?
1999
Magic Bus/Founded
Founded in 1999 by then Cox and Kings chief operating officer Matthew Spacie, Magic Bus was conceived as an initiative that used sport to impart learning and self-confidence to underprivileged children.
What happened to the Magic Bus in Alaska?
The former Fairbanks city bus is sometimes called Bus 142 or the Magic Bus. It was later used to house construction workers building a road in the area. It was abandoned in 1961, and became a shelter for those using the backcountry to recreate or hunt.
Is Chris McCandless real?
Christopher Johnson McCandless (/məˈkændlɪs/; February 12, 1968 – c. August 1992), also known by his self-made nickname Alexander Supertramp, was an American adventurer, who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle as he grew up.
Where is magic bus now?
the University of Alaska Museum of the North
Now the famous bus is settling into a new home at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, where it will be renovated and installed as an exhibition to immortalize it’s many stories. “So the bus has a long a storied history, but unfortunately there were some tragedies associated with people trying to see the bus.
