Our programs
INZSET is serious about developing athletes and supporting them. Our programmes are designed to enhance performance, create structures to support athlete welfare, provide opportunities to learn and lead and to foster goodwill between New Zealand and India. Below are the projects running now, with more to come under the same remit.
Our Sports
Rugby is where the Trust started, because that's where the relationships were strongest and the pathway was clearest. The Trust exists to run exchanges across a range of sporting codes — wherever there's a genuine exchange to be had between India and New Zealand and a community ready to host. See What's next for where we're heading.
Kolkata - Kiwi Exchange (KKeX)
The Kolkata-Kiwi Exchange is the Trust's first project: an all-girls rugby and cultural exchange linking Christchurch with communities across India — Kolkata, Siliguri and Delhi. Players train together, compete together, and share each other's culture on and off the field. For the New Zealand players, it's a chance to see the game, and themselves, through a different lens. For their Indian counterparts, it's a rugby experience with a Kiwi team right alongside them.
Why India and New Zealand?
Two countries that take their sport seriously, and have almost nothing else in common in how they play it. That gap is the whole opportunity. India has a grassroots depth and a scale of participation that a New Zealand athlete simply cannot experience at home. New Zealand has coaching systems, pathways and a sporting culture that Indian athletes want to learn from directly. Send young people in both directions and both sides gain something they couldn't manufacture on their own.