Rethinking our cities starting from children and come on Boysbuilding new spaces to live and places to give life to educational processes, aggregative and social inclusion is the new challenge of Csi Reggio Calabriaalso made possible thanks to the project Ariadne out of the labyrinthselected by With the children within the Fund for fight against educational poverty minor.
For six weeksstarting from next June 17th, courtyards, squares and streets of Reggio Calabria will be animated and cleaned by young people and adults under testing regime, thanks to the initiative “Super Santos Street League 2024“, a series of Basketball tournaments, Volleyball And 5-a-side or 3-a-side footballwhich presents itself as an innovative and concrete proposal to offer an alternative to those who often seem to have no other choice than the path of crime.
The net with institutions, associations and many families it brings to the table an idea of participation and active citizenship which starts from urban regeneration, electing street play to an educational and social dimension, promoting change, to “hook” young people and insert them into a virtuous process that brings life and light to public spaces that would otherwise be hostage to neglect, petty crime and drug dealing.
The target of the initiative, open to young people between 10 and 17 years and supported by the municipal administrator, is set up play corners (13 spaces specifically, from San Luca in Reggio Calabria) through the streets and squares of the neighborhoods of the Metropolitan City.
Places and spaces who are reborn thanks to the reorganization and cleaning work of over twenty young people and adults on probation, entrusted to the Csi Reggio Calabria.
Linking these two dimensions is the crucial aspect of the Csi project: minors and adults, reported by Ussm And Udepe through personalized educational and insertion projects, after the authorization of the Magistrates, they will be the absolute protagonists of street education and the urban regeneration process.
Having made a mistakea crime and being able to to redeem refereeing one match, cleaning up a square or guarding a space public, makes the initiative Super Santos a concrete example of “regeneration” not only urban but above all personal, offering the path to a new social inclusion.
Csi animatorspartner associations and managers of the Csi Reggio Calabria, will be the leading team the appearance of sports education And street entertainment. A working group Already run-in, which for years has been alongside the many partner associations of the initiative that operate in our territories. The activities will end with Final Street Partywhich will be held in Pellaro between 22 and 27 July, within the highly anticipated cultural and social initiative: “Pass to Ball”.
Unesco said the world heritage street game, «an intangible capital of great value». The Csi Reggio Calabria, together with the numerous parishes, associations and sports groups that have joined the initiative, is preparing to take the field to enhance this heritage and make neighborhoods, squares and abandoned spaces suitable for children and teenagers and therefore for everyone.
