Rione Sanità, the Fiamme Oro introduce young people to sport climbing

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From this year in the center of the Sanità district of the city of Naples it is possible to practice, in addition to boxing and judo, also climbing.

The Fiamme Oro actively collaborates in an important sporting and social project, giving all young Neapolitans the opportunity to learn about and practice some sports disciplines.

The project, originally born with the name “Boxing at Rione Sanità”, was born in 2018 by the San Gennaro Community Foundation, with the collaboration of the Fiamme Oro Sports Group of the State Police.

The intent was to intervene in one of the most fragile areas of the city (affected by strong social degradation and serious phenomena of school dropout) with a concrete extracurricular educational proposal.

Sport was chosen as an educational tool to combat marginalization, recover minors at risk and promote social inclusion. The first practices introduced were boxing, boxing and judo, which impose discipline and mutual respect, thus constituting an important and motivating pedagogical model for children.

In this sporting and social inclusion project, on which three Foundations (Ebbene, Mazzola and Comunità San Gennaro) are currently working in synergy, climbing has also recently been introduced, with the inauguration of a wall donated by the Mazzola Foundation to the structure “Cristallini 73” – former beggars asylum in the Rione Sanità, to allow young people from the neighborhood to experiment with this discipline.

Also in this case, the sporting practice will be carried out in collaboration with the Fiamme Oro Sports Group, which recently created the Youth Sports Climbing Section, and which has already registered 26 young people from Naples for this new sector.

The Demon Rock Wall sports club (which manages Palaroccia Napoli) provides the instructors and organizes the courses, actively collaborating with Fiamme Oro.

“The Fiamme Oro has as its statutory aim the promotion of legality through sport” states the General Director of the State Police, Francesco Montini “and we do it not only with champions who win medals, but with sports facilities dedicated to young people to take them off the streets, making them practice sports that are particularly attractive. In our gyms the kids, in addition to sport, find a training ground for life from which perhaps champions will emerge, but certainly good people will emerge».

Tuesday 23 April at 4.00 pm an official meeting of the associations that participated in the project will be held, with the coordinator of the Fiamme Oro Sports Group – Alpine Sports Section, Erica Antoniol, and the coordinator of the Fiamme Oro of Naples, Luca Piscopo, in the presence of the President of the Italian Sports Climbing Federation , Davide Battistella and the Delegate of the FASI Campania Regional Committee, Stefano Maria Sgobba.

“We are proud that climbing can become a tool for social inclusion, especially in an area densely populated by young people” states FASI President, Davide Battistella. “The success of this sporting activity is determined by the fact that it leads to rediscovering the motor patterns of children’s evolution and that it is an extremely economical practice, feasible in any corner of our territory. It makes us happy that it turns out to be an important tool for promoting sport on a social level, not only on a competitive level, but above all for the growth and development of the community, especially youth.”