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A month ago, the Sports Pavilion Santa Lucia has launched this social initiative of the Club of Friends of Handball, collaborating on the City Council and Obra Social La Caixa, who has delivered a check amounting to 11,200 euros

The Friends of the Handball Club Cartagena has finally managed to launch a project I worked in a while, out of their Schools Handball to the poorest neighborhoods of the city, and has done so with the cooperation of Obra Social La Caixa and the city of Cartagena by the Sports Council.

It is an integration of children at risk of social exclusion through sport, particularly handball as the councilor for Sports, Diego Ortega, at the launch of this initiative, which has also appeared on President of the Club of Friends of Handball, Antonio Garcia, and the director of Near La Caixa, Sara Abella.

A month ago, opened the School of Handball in the Sports Pavilion St. Lucia, which already have registered more than fifty children who attend 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade in schools The Hannibal CP Mateos CP Virgen del Mar and Santa Lucia.

There, throughout the season, handball learn and practice two days a week, in the afternoon, under the guidance of instructors of the sport coordinated by Paul Rock.

Antonio Garcia also stressed that delving into the social aspect of this activity, free of charge, each training day will end with a complete and balanced snack, also free, provided by a caterer in town.

This social spirit that has moved to the involvement of the Welfare of La Caixa, intended, according to Sara Abella said, is to maintain its support to these projects of integration and cooperation, as we have been doing before with initiatives Department of Social Services of the City Hall. And economic contribution, the entity has delivered to the Friends of the Handball Club, a check for 11,200 euros.

With this idea of continuity, teams Handball School Santa Lucia compete in interschool league in the District of Cartagena Cartagena organized by the CAB from November to May, and additionally a selection of them in the regional competition of the School Sports organized by the Directorate General of Sports of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena