The Minister of Sports and Recreation, Francisco Camacho, announced the launch of “Free sports programs” during the school holidays in all the facilities of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center, which will begin as a pilot plan for five thousand athletes-students of the National District.
He indicated that the activities will take place from 3:00 to 6:00 in the afternoon and the participants will have guaranteed all the biosafety protocols to protect them from the Covid-19 pandemic. Registration for it will begin on Monday 5 of this month.
Camacho ruled that the thousands of children and young people will receive practices in the disciplines volleyball, basketball, softball, baseball, boxing, karate, taekwondo, soccer, judo, athletics, Olympic wrestling, chess, wushu, among other disciplines.
He explained that this same plan will be taken to the different sports facilities in the La Barranquita Sports Complex, in Santiago de los Caballeros.
“We have talked with the Minister of Public Works, Deligne Ascención, who will pave the sports complex; Mr. Andrés Cueto, general manager of Edenorte, will provide the lighting; and the National Army will have a staff in the Barranquita to provide security 24 hours a day, “he emphasized.
That is what President Luis Abinader wants and we do. This program will not affect the development of the different sports programs that are being carried out in the facilities of the Olympic Center ”, said Camacho.
He stated that the registration for the National District will begin next Monday 5 of this month in each of the sports facilities of the Olympic Center, from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon, where there will be a team from the Directorate Technique working in that sense.
“This will be a pilot plan that we will do and then we will extend it to all the Olympic centers and sports centers throughout the country,” said the official, who was accompanied by the Vice Minister of Sports of the South Region, Kennedy Vargas and the technical director of the Ministry, Neftalí Ventura.
He pointed out that this plan had been being prepared with enough time and will be put into practice this summer and will culminate days before teaching begins in high schools and public schools.
The technical director of Miderec, Neftalí Ventura, affirmed that all the monitors and trainers of the institution will be working on these “free sports” activities for the people.
“What we are looking for is that parents who cannot pay for a sports camp now in summer, can send their children to the different programs at the Olympic Center, totally free, safely and with a qualified staff,” Ventura said.
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