El 4 de agosto de 2021, un año después de la explosión que sacudió la ciudad de Beirut, se construyó el primer skatepark público.
Permitir a los jóvenes practicar su deporte en un espacio seguro, favorecer los encuentros humanos entre personas de orígenes diferentes y dar un nuevo impulso de alegría a la juventud libanesa, tales son los objetivos del proyecto Snoubar Skatepark.
For two months, volunteers from all over the world, the Decathlon Skateboarding and Decathlon Lebanon teams, as well as the association Make Life Skate Life, participated in the construction of this skatepark with the support of the Decathlon Foundation.
Jean-Philippe Rode, project leader at the Decathlon Foundation and product manager at Decathlon SkateBoarding: “We worked very hard to build the skatepark. The volunteers give everything. We met a lot of local skaters, we skated together one morning. Skateboarding is a great intergenerational sport, it creates social links, everyone talks to each other.”
Since the opening of the skatepark, dozens of young people have come to live their passion every day. This is the case of Mike who says: “The skatepark has changed my life. When you skate you just want to have fun, you don’t think about negative things” With the association JustChildHood, Mike gives lessons several times a week to Palestinian and Syrian children from the neighbouring refugee camp: “It’s going to change their lives”.
Este proyecto de la Fundación Decathlon va más allá y fomenta la integración profesional de los jóvenes en un contexto de crisis económica y social en el Líbano. Decathlon Líbano se compromete a ofrecer oportunidades profesionales a los patinadores locales (prácticas, contratos de temporada o contratos permanentes).
This sports and solidarity project, which brings the meaning of Decathlon to life, is just one of the 686 projects supported by the Foundation and carried out by our teams.
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