2024-05-14 15:00:36
BRIXANONE. And movement of 220 thousand student “runners” from 700 Italian municipalities is involved, in recent weeks, in a great solidarity race promoted every year within schools by «Action against Hunger»an international humanitarian organization specializing in the fight against child hunger and malnutrition.
This is the “Race Against Hunger”, now in its tenth edition, the largest educational, sporting and solidarity project in the world, now in its tenth edition in Italy and sponsored, again this year, by CONI. There are over 1,600 primary and secondary schools that have chosen to join an awareness-raising and sporting event which, since its inception, has involved more than 9 million students worldwide in around 67,500 schools . In recent weeks, the organization has started an educational awareness program in children’s classes Falcone-Borsellino and Ipc Bressanone instituteswith school students Alessandro Manzoni, Antonio Rosmini and Rita Levi-Montalcini.
«The objective – explains the teacher Maria Cristina Ugolini – was to illustrate to students the structural causes and consequences of hunger, a contemporary scourge that affects over 828 million people in the world. The students of the participating classes were also able to learn more about the topic thanks to a civic education teaching kit provided by the organisation, which this year has Bangladesh as its focus country”.
After this first training phase, the students mobilize and become an active part of the project: through the “solidarity passport” and the video materials provided, they are the ones who involve family members, neighbors and friends on the issues addressed and who, in light of their work, to raise awareness, they can receive a promise of donation for each stretch of run carried out during the final day of the project which will take place on Friday 17 May at the sports field in the Rosslauf area from 8am onwards. They are expected at the starting line 400 participants.
The organization of the event will be directed and managed by physical education teachers from secondary schools, assisted by curricular teachers and a representative of the Panathlon Club of Bressanone. With their commitment, both as ambassadors of the initiative and as athletes, in the final race of the project, the children will be able to concretely support the fight against child hunger and malnutrition in the world, a commitment that Action against Hunger has been leading for over 40 years in 51 countries.
2024-05-14 15:00:36