The “Games without…barriers” event in Barletta

BARLETTA – “The collaboration with the AIAS Center creates a positive connection that gives meaning and meaning to real social and sporting inclusion. I am happy for this moment of high human and scholastic education inserted in a context of solidarity”. So the head teacher Gabriella Catacchior, of the Pietro Mennea Comprehensive Institute of Barletta, on the sidelines of the charity event “Games without…barriers”.
The event organized by the AIAS socio-educational rehabilitation center Barletta section (Italian Association of Spastic Assistance) with the patronage of the civic body took place on May 23rd at the PalaDisfida in Barletta “M. Borgia”.
“The intent was to make everyone experience an end-of-year party in the name of sport, a healthy spirit of competition, fun, diversity and acceptance of others”, they declare Sibilia Lacalamita and Mimmo Lamantea, coordinator and vice president of AIAS
The AIAS Social-Educational Rehabilitation Center is a structure that has been present in the area for years and whose institutional purpose is to promote initiatives and activities aimed at welcoming and supporting disabled people so that they can manage to live and lead a normal life, sociability, fun and inclusion. In view of this ultimate goal, one of the activities carried out in the Center itself is sporting activity.
A note of color and harmony was given by the performance of the stable choir of the Mennea Vox Caelestis.
The “Games without….barriers” project represents a clear leap in quality in terms of inclusion and the reconquest of the social and educational value of sport through a new and innovative use of motor and sporting practice. Sport, starting from what a person is able to give or do, stimulates consideration of oneself and one’s existence. In this way, we want to reduce the consideration of sport not as a competitive performance, but first and foremost as a plurality of motor practices that are useful and significant for the subject himself.
Among the authorities present were the councilor for sport of Barletta Marcello De Gennero and for USR Puglia, the director Mario Trifiletti and the representative of the Sport, school and disability project Giantommaso Perricci who with great enthusiasm expressed sincere applause for the initiative.
Also present were a large representation of local sports associations who animated the basketball, five-a-side football, volleyball, artistic dance and taekwon-do activities. The moment of the awards was exciting.

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