The Association of Sports Journalists of Malaga (APDM) has launched, with the collaboration of the ”la Caixa” Foundation, the sports and social program ‘Sport goes through neighborhoods’, which will take place on a monthly basis during the first half of 2022. There will be a total of six public meetings that will take place at the headquarters of different modest clubs located in disadvantaged neighborhoods or in sports associations in which their members have limitations of any kind for the performance of physical exercise.
The program will take place during the first semester of 2022 in different clubs and associations of disadvantaged neighborhoods of Malaga. It will have a face-to-face character, but also educational dissemination and it is expected to reach some 600 beneficiaries
The meetings will consist of a talk between a professional athlete and a journalist associated with the APDM, and each one of them will have its own objective and purpose, although all will share inclusion through sport and the promotion of positive values linked to sports practice as a common denominator. They will be developed in person, although they will also be recorded for dissemination in educational centers in the chosen areas. With this, it is intended to reach some 600 beneficiaries of the project.
The action ‘Sport goes through neighbourhoods’, promoted by the Association of Sports Journalists of Malaga and with the collaboration of the ”la Caixa” Foundation, is aimed at modest clubs in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, vulnerable groups and those at risk of exclusion , to educational centers in specific areas and to other associations for which the talks may have an educational, social or even educational value.
Luis Muñoz, first assistant in Palma-Palmilla
After the parenthesis forced by the advance of the sixth wave of the Covid’19 pandemic, Luis Muñoz will be in charge of opening the talks on Thursday, February 3 at 4:30 p.m. at the La Virreina Municipal Football Field, headquarters of the CD February 26, in the Palma-Palmilla district. The Málaga CF captain, currently seriously injured, will share a presence with Málaga-born journalist Jesús Ortiz, who specializes in Paralympic sports and is a native of the neighbourhood, like Muñoz. Both will contribute their experiences on how to grow sportingly and professionally in unfavorable environments.
It will be the starting signal for a series of meetings that will also deal with aspects such as hearing impairment in elite sport, self-defense as a tool against gender-based violence, the other values that surround arbitration, and the discipline to compete professionally with chronic diseases such as diabetes, in addition to other surprises.