For the occasion, he also made some baskets with the students of the Jean-Zay college basketball class in Bondy. This Friday, the president (PS) of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis, Stéphane Troussel, came to the plant to present his new “Pass Sport 5e”. An operation that will allow approximately 18,500 fifth grade pupils enrolled in one of the 130 public colleges of 93 to benefit from a € 100 e-card to enroll in one of the 400 partner clubs or associations of the operation.
“You know that in 2024 Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis will have the opportunity to host the Olympic Games, explained Stéphane Troussel. We will receive athletes from all over the world, millions of spectators will attend this event. We thought that the young people in the department should also take advantage of this moment to improve their sporting practices. “
The county council – which runs the colleges – didn’t pick these fifth-graders at random. “We know that it is around 11 or 12 that young people tend to stop their sporting activities. We think this pass will encourage you to continue the sport, with all the benefits it brings to your physical and mental health, ”Stéphane Troussel insisted.
To be downloaded by November 15th
In class, Néhémie and Marietou, two students, listen to him. “If I sign up for this pass, it will be to play handball”, comments the former, while the latter is more inclined to swim. In this basketball class, students are already athletic. “But you should only take advantage of this pass to discover other disciplines, it is very important,” Nour-Eddine Ziane, president of the sports club AS Bondy, one of the partners of the department, reminded them.
To register, families must log in by November 15th on a dedicated platform (https://seinesaintdenis.up-epass.fr/login). “It opened on Thursday and at the end of the day we already had 255 members”, explains the department council. Passes can be spent until 10 December. The operation, whose cost amounts to 1 million euros, also aims to help local clubs, which have suffered the brunt of the health crisis with temporary closures or restrictions on membership limited to people vaccinated against Covid-19.
According to the department, Seine-Saint-Denis clubs lost a large number of licensees between 11-16 years between 2019-2020 and 2020-21: -10% for football, -42% for judo or other – 22% for gymnastics.
