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Meet some GEA 2018 YAGs

April 3, 2019

Whats does sport mean? What does the PLAY project represent for our YAGs?
GEA is starting the second pilot soon and wants to share thoughts from Michele and Hilary, two of the YAGs involved in the first pilot last year.

Michele and Hilary are two incredibly active volunteers of Polisportiva San Precario, a local sport club that participates in the first pilot action developed by the partner GEA in Padua (Italy). Sport for All and Sport for Inclusion are their mottos, perfectly in line with our PLAY project’s aims.
Michele is a basketball coach and he works mainly with young people with a migration background, including refugees and asylum seekers. The PLAY project helped him strengthen some important skills, create a more inclusive environment and try different strategies to make everyone feel part of the game.
Hilary works in a gym, but her passion is communication and organisation of sport for all events. PLAY gave her the chance to improve skills for the organisation of sport events with a social impact, also being actively involved in the preparation of the PLAY international sport camp held in Rosolina Mare last May 2018.
Check out the video interviews here
GEA YAG volunteer Michele
GEA YAG volunteer Hilary

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Second Pilot: New Year, New YAGs!

April 3, 2019

For the second pilot action that will be developed through this last year of the project, GEA has recruited a new YAGs team: welcome into the PLAY project ASD Quadrato Meticcio, a local sport club that promotes football for social inclusion.

They are a super active anti-racist and anti-sexist club, and 6 young coaches and volunteers under 30 will be involved in implementing educational sessions with 2 groups of kids, under 10 and beginners (11-12 years old). Activities will start at in March 2019 and will be held in the Palestro neighbourhood of Padua, where around 30,000 people live (around 14% of overall Padua popluation).
The neighbourhood is characterised by many council houses, a relevant multicultural mix of populations, difficulties in integration and social inclusion but also a high vitality of social organisations and civic society. Sport plays a great role in this, and PLAY project will further promote grassroots sport as a powerful tool of education and social inclusion of children, kids and youngsters adding the opportunity of an European cooperation.