The program Choose Sport is being implemented in the Zagreb primary school Ante Kovačić by the teacher Snježana Ivanović. Whole classes had fun studying books on sport Kid athletes, where they found cartoon characters: Morsel, Wicked, Barbara, Worm, Genius, Nina, Sparrow, and the playful dog Bobby. The pupils were searching for the right sport for themselves in a fun way, the sport they would like to train.

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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