When things are interesting, one can also read under the bench, and the floor isn’t that hard either. The project Choose Sport is being implemented in the primary school Trnanjska by the teacher Petra Crnojević.

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 project improves the cooperation between educational and sports institutions, simultaneously addressing the parents as well, thereby creating the impact in the environment that doing sports is something which is generally accepted and available.

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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