The least we can say is that it will have been a busy vacation. Swimming, tennis, handball, basketball, judo, football, all punctuated by discoveries from the media library or toy library to the CNRS in Moulis over two weeks, mornings and afternoons. A discovery of sporting, playful or cultural activities from which the children welcomed in training are often far away. It’s the crazy sports project, but not only, set up by the Ariège football district first in Pamiers and extended to Saint-Girons as part of the city’s policy (1).
“This time, specifies Xavier Berrut, employee of the Saint-Girons Football Club and organizer of this course, for reasons of logistics, transport in particular, and sanitary conditions, we worked with the management of the Saint-Alary school, in a priority district of the city. She sent us a dozen schoolchildren in social or financial difficulty, with the agreement of their families.”
Culture, citizenship, food…
According to an immutable principle for each activity, these children are welcomed by a supervisor who introduces them to the practice, to sporting values. “It is also to awaken them to new horizons.”
By taming the shelves of the media library, the culture of books on CD or the discovery of the game, its rules, alone or in a group. Awareness beyond the brakes or clichés which was supported by small touches to that of citizenship, with a visit to the fire station and even that of the gendarmerie. Also passed through the plate. Meals taken together every day with menus prepared by the host restaurateurs. “It goes through simple things but it also means making them discover a healthy, balanced diet around a starter, a main course and a dessert. We rely on their eating habits but trying to vary, to cook differently. Make them discover that it’s not just fries, pizzas or other sweet drinks.”
Yes, a busy holiday for delighted children. From now on, Xavier Berrut hopes to perpetuate and extend this system, if the means follow, to the various schools in the district to benefit other children in fragile situations.
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