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Sports to help disadvantaged youth

Sports to help disadvantaged youth

CONI and Italian lottery team up against social exclusion

Rome, 24 April 2015, 17:27

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The Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) and the Italian lottery have inaugurated a project that aims to reduce the social exclusion of youths in disadvantaged areas.
    The project, named 'Vincere da Grandi' ('Win Big') will begin in May and run through all of 2015. Children between the ages of 5 and 14 that live in disadvantaged areas of Italy and who are at risk of social exclusion will have the chance to try out, get to know and practice numerous sports free of charge. The aim is to promote the development and spread of sports culture to encourage and transmit social and educational values such as fair play, respect, healthy competition, loyalty, solidarity and team spirit. The participants, identified through sports associations involved in the project through town councils, schools and social services, will be subdivided by age group and inserted free of charge in track and field, karate, volleyball, basketball, swimming, football, tennis, badminton, sailing, judo, gymnastics, taekwondo and rugby courses.
    The project will be implemented in four Italian cities: at Rome's Foro Italico di Roma with Carlo Molfetta, captain of the Italy's national taekwondo team and winner of an gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games; in Naples' Scampia area with Giovanni Maddaloni, president and instructor at the A.S.D. Star Judo Club; at Palermo's Zen with Rachid Berradi, who competed in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, one of the star middle-distance runners on the Italian team and head of the A.S.D. Atletica Berradi 091; and at Milan's Quarto Oggiano. The youths will also take part in a two-week summer course in the same centers and will be able to attend an important sports event in their region. "Lottomatica is firmly committed to concepts to giving back to the collective good and social responsibility with programs in which about 50 million euros have been invested over the past five years," said its managing director, Fabio Cairoli, on the sidelines of the presentation for the project in Rome.
    He added that that the project "supports economically disadvantaged youths so that they can enter the world of sports, which we hold to be a healthy part of society. Through sports activities, young people can learn values such as respect for the rules, legality and commitment to the future. This is an investment that we make in tomorrow's adults." "Through this initiative," added CONI chief Giovanni Malagò, "we propose a virtuous model for public-private collaboration that, thanks to sports, aims to foster prevention and social development where it is most useful. Our project therefore aims both to improve the quality of life for the children living in particularly disadvantaged areas and to keep them away from distractions that can be much more dangerous."

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