We are presenting the judo coach Nikolina Šimunić from the judo club Lika, where we are implementing the program Choose Sport. “The mission of judo coaches is for children to choose the life style and the life goal that fulfills them as well, and that they are not afraid of challenges,” Nikolina says. The whole interview with her you can find in the next issue of the JudoIN magazine.

The goal of the project Choose Sport is mass inclusion of children into sport, and the creation of habits of long term involvement with sport. The project addresses the general population of school children, but its target group are children in adverse social standing and thus in risk of social exclusion (children with unemployed parents, whose parents receive children’s benefits, without appropriate parenting, those from single parent families, from families with three or more children, and those children with behavioral issues).

The children are given free memberships in the judo clubs of the Zagreb Judo Union: the judo club “Lika“ and the judo club “Zagreb,“ where they also receive free sports equipment –  a judo kimono.

The implementation of the project is co-financed by EU, from the European Social Fund.  

For further information on EU funds, please visit the webpage of the Ministry of Regional Development and EU funds: www.strukturnifondovi.hr

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