They use sports as a tool to achieve these noble goals and also carry out other activities, such as medical consultations, discussions, and cultural events.

“What we want is to see how we can instill the idea of ​​creating community. That is, that the children, and not only them, but also the neighbors, the families of the neighborhood, have a space where they see themselves as part of the community and feel involved in building the club,” activist Alejandro Presa, its co-founder and vice president, told Prensa Latina.

They started with soccer. “Here in Argentina, you throw a ball and you have 20, 30, 50 kids who want to play,” the activist recalls.

Children and teenagers practice their favorite sport; besides soccer, they learn rugby and volleyball. “The girls also participate, and we are forming a women’s soccer team and a women’s volleyball team,” Presa points out.

The coaches are friends who volunteer their free time to teach and train the children, and, in turn, instill values ​​and proper social behavior in them; they build community.

Generally, they are children and teenagers from surrounding poor neighborhoods, and the Club takes them off the streets, away from vice and crime, another of its positive impacts.

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