The City Council and CB Isla de La Gomera launch a new project for people with functional diversity
With the participation of ten players, the first pioneering project on the island of La Gomera that promotes basketball as a vehicle for social inclusion begins this Monday, July 13. A joint initiative of the San Sebastián de La Gomera City Council and the CB Isla de La Gomera that is aimed at young people with functional diversity, promoting their growth and enrichment.
“With this proposal we seek to promote equality, integration and insertion through sport and its values,” said the mayor of San Sebastián de La Gomera, Adasat Reyes, who was convinced that “it will mark a new path at the island level, which will be enhanced with exchanges with other clubs.”
"In San Sebastián de La Gomera we needed to take a step further and advance in social inclusion, which is why we are convinced that the project proposed by the CB Isla de La Gomera will work and will allow us to launch a set of cognitive and motor development activities, which have an additional financial support of 5,000 euros," he noted.
For his part, Luis Valeiras, president of the CB Isla de La Gomera, explained that through basketball exercise they seek to improve toning, coordination and skill, as well as increase basic capabilities. All of this, together with a coexistence that tries to create ties with the environment, normalize all situations as everyday situations and raise awareness in the city with which you share these activities.”
