Thursday, September 30, 2010

Legal Statement Of Confidentiality

AdP Correspondents: Acacias Sport Club by William Lazarus

Explain to readers learn the values \u200b\u200bof sport sport in general and basketball in particular offers not discover anything, effort, teamwork, responsibility, solidarity ... So I'll try to tell a concrete initiative further leads on the positives that our sport can .

Acacías In a small town in the interior of Colombia , Department of Meta, makes his work a local NGO Acacías Sport Club that uses sport as a tool for community development and social change.

The City has grown significantly in recent years, an estimate of 80,000 inhabitants (57,000 counted), over 5,000 were forcibly displaced driven from their homes by armed conflict in Colombia . From one day to another, one of the actors in this conflict (guerrilla, paramilitary or military) means that thousands of people lose their home, their heritage and have to run away with it because with all that entails arriving at a new site without support network, no job ... will be happening problems: poverty, marginalization, unemployment, and if not break with this dynamic may appear delinquency cases, consumption, lack of education of children, teen pregnancy ... As in all conflicts The most small are the main victims: 38% of all displaced in Acacias are between 5 and 14 years.

The sport not only provides a healthy entertainment for children, away from other hazardous environments, but can help break that circle : order to attend training necessary to come to school , which, apart from achieving a training enables the child to leave the exclusion (which is that, not poverty, the main factor to fall in consumption and / or delinquency).

Of the 11 groups and 227 players / as there is currently (And with the aim of reaching 70 and 750 in 2011), with schools in basketball since age 5, one of the more enthusiasm and affection that you put the time to work is that of Mother Leaders , Agenda National Families in Action. Ladies over 40 mostly to sheathe his shirt to claim their rights as women . Gender inequality is another serious subject of our work. It is estimated, although the complaint does not go nearly ever that 67% of Colombian women have suffered some type of abuse (physical, psychological or sexual) . In addition, the teen pregnancy rate is about 133 per 1000 (10 times higher than in Spain for example), and child prostitution (girls prepaid) is something unfortunately far to the agenda. The specific work we do is directed equally to greater self-esteem, gender awareness and report on affective-sexual relations.

The methodology used is through non-formal education techniques, getting to inculcate children positive values \u200b\u200bthat basketball has , they are warned in substance or providing a space for the responsible use of leisure and Leisure, among other results. Begin to become important Internet social networks (Facebook mostly) at the time of contact and engage with the kids.

What about basketball? Although not the primary purpose, do not forget and spoil the tool that allows us to reach . With materials provided with the English Association of Basketball Coaches to train new trainers / educators to raise the competitive level of basketball in the City (which, to begin work was very low).

By January 2011 we have the objective to start school Acacías Premier League (which is new in the country, as there are regular competitions for schoolchildren), with 10 schools participating in categories juvenile, child and male and female cadet. Also, it will monitor all players, with specific work of modernization with those highlights.

These days we are trying to close the funding needed to sustain this project until the end of 2011, and is loans appealing to the solidarity that exists in all that make up the BA-LON-CES-TO (players, coaches , fans, media, clubs, sponsors, companies, associations ...) to carry it out successfully.

To know more about the project can visit the website http://www.acaciassportclub.info/ , from which they can help sustain the same or write to info@acaciassportclub.info to find other ways to help.

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