Four rugby, judo, gymnastics and pilates courses. And other activities related to sports journalism, workshops on ancient Neapolitan games, seminars on nutrition, federal courses for referees and coaches. This is what “Sport is support” provides, a civic community space that arrives at the Partenope sports center in Naples.
Presented in the premises of the Bronze Horses headquarters, the project includes free activities aimed at young people aged 14 to 34, with particular reference to those living in conditions of social hardship. The objective is to create a concrete space to welcome these young people, enhance their resources and support them on their path to achievement.
The lead company is the Partenope Rugby Club Junior, which was awarded the financing put out to tender by Sport and Health and promoted by the Ministry for Sport and Youth, and will work in synergy with its partners, the Partenope sports club and the social cooperative NuReCo. The course locations are concentrated between the Albricci stadium and the business center.
“Thanks to Sport and Health – states Paola Gelormini, president of Partenope Rugby Club Junior – we have the possibility of offering a series of activities to kids in difficulty. We have chosen rugby, an important sport in terms of the values it transmits and because it is a a bit of a tradition of ours. Then pilates, judo and gymnastics. Whoever comes to us will be able to have a sort of ‘license’ to become a federal coach and follow a sports journalism course.”
“An important project of social innovation – underlines Francesca Merenda, regional coordinator of Sport and Health – which lasts 24 months and gives young people who do not work and do not train the opportunity to access sporting activities but also extra-sporting, cultural and In this way they will be able to discover their talent in civic spaces of democratic coexistence”.
Some past athletes from Partenope attended to celebrate the start of the “Sport is support” project.
Together with the president of the Polisportiva Partenope association Alessandro Gelormini, Raffaele D’Orazio and Vincenzo Trapanese, Italian rugby champions in 1965 and 1966; Manfredo Fucile, winner of the 1970 Cup Winners’ Cup.
For Alessandro Gelormini, president of the Polisportiva Partenope, “the project aims to bring young people closer to amateur sport. An activity not seen as work but as fun and discovery of one’s talent. I believe that Partenope is the best place to start this initiative “.
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