“My mother is a fighter” - One Team VI, Week VII

21/02/2018

The seventh day of training of the sixth project of One Team with Valencia Basket served to learn the story of Juan, a young man belonging to a family of 4 brothers whose mother takes charge every day. Today we tell the story of Juan, and especially the story of Juan's mother, in the eyes of his son, member of One Team.

 

And is that when the mirror is at home, it is much easier to empathize with what surrounds you, "I believe that my mother is a fighter because for me what she does is an example. She does not have a schedule to do what she wants, she is always working. He goes to work in the markets, he gets up early, he makes us the food and to take the 4 brothers is very difficult and without the figure of a father more".

 

Juan, like his brothers, tries to help as much as possible, "when my mother is making the meal I help her by taking the dishes, setting the table and those things. My mother the first thing she wants is for us to study and have a future."

 

The Santa Marta project helps in this formation, collaborating with families who need those extra hours to help in such a complicated family situation, "in Santa Marta I learn, I sincerely love it. I've been since I was little and it's like it's my second home."

 

We asked him about One Team, Juan usually does not miss any training, "I think the One Team is great. I have improved communication and respect with colleagues. Before I did not know it and I've learned it. The girls Blessing and Evi I did not know them as much as now, we have more communication and I understand them more".

 

Ten sessions, a goal

Supported by the work of the Obra Social "La Caixa", this project "One Team VI" has planned ten training sessions that will take place on Tuesdays from January 9 in the afternoon to mid-March. With them, participants are expected to live positive experiences and develop healthy habits of personal improvement that can be transferred to the school or work environment. All this through the learning of the basic concepts of a collective sport such as basketball, which will help participants to know the values ​​of sacrifice and responsibility that derive from organized exercise, use sport as a formula for personal development and direct their steps so that they can find in the practice of any sport activity a way to grow as people.

 

Santa Marta Project

Santa Marta is a Project of Socio-educational Intervention with minors at risk of social exclusion and their families, in the neighborhood of the Fuente de San Lluis in Valencia, which is developed within the network framework of the Family and Children Program of Caritas Diocesana From Valencia. This project is an attempt to facilitate the integration of minors and their families who, from a disadvantaged social environment, live different situations of exclusion, which are causing a process of social maladjustment. And it is taking steps towards a project to promote the neighborhood itself and a space of attention and company to facilitate the social promotion of the participants in this initiative.


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