Ah, there will be athletes in this school. In the Zagreb primary school Prečko, the program Choose Sport is being implemented by teachers Sandra Lovrenčić and Bosiljka Dujmović.

Whole classes are full of sports posters the children made themselves; everybody described the sport he or she likes best, and also clarified and shown basic movements and rules to the sport on the poster. The pupils were quite amused by the books Kid Athletes and their cartoon characters: Morsel, Wicked, Barbara, Worm, Genius, Nina, Sparrow, and – most by the playful dog Bobby.

The goal of the project is mass inclusion of children into sport, and creation of habits of long term involvement in sport. The project addresses the general population of children of school age, but its target group are children in adverse social standing and, thereby, who are at risk of social exclusion (children with unemployed parents, with parents who receive children’s benefits, those children without appropriate parenting, those from single parent families, from families with three or more children and the children with behavioral issues), and who are given free memberships to judo training in judo clubs of the Zagreb Judo Union: judo club “Lika“ and judo club “Zagreb,“ where they will further 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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