“There is a team”, the program that tries to bring children and adolescents closer to the different neighborhood clubs

This Tuesday the program was presented “There is a team”which aims to connect girls and boys between 5 and 17 years of age whose mother, father or guardian receives the universal child allowance (AUH) with sports institutions as spaces of belonging, recreation and development.

This is an initiative of the Ministry of Tourism and Sport in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. “The club is the best place to spend your childhood: sport teaches values ​​and promotes bonds that last a lifetime”Matías Lammens expressed.

And he added: “These institutions are the heart of our sports policy. This is why we accompany them with a historic investment in infrastructural works, regularization plans and other initiatives to strengthen them as social and training environments throughout the national territory”.

The main objective of this program is to ensure access to sport for children and adolescents in neighborhood sports clubs and bodies, which in turn has a direct impact on the health of each of them.

In relation to the latter, the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, highlighted: “We are very excited about this new project, which It gives us the opportunity to reach children and adolescents with strategies for the prevention and identification of any health problem. and liaise with each of the jurisdictions to bring them closer and improve health “.

It will reach the entire country and the national state will cover 100 percent of the cost of the activity, the contribution of which will be paid to the entities that register.

In addition, medical checks will be carried out on those who access the program, as well as on other people related to the club and the local community, through mobile health devices that will tour the institutions.

In a first phase, the deadline for the registration of the sports institutions wishing to participate opens. The documentation certifying the regular functioning of the institution must be presented and vacant places must be made available in all or some of the sports activities carried out in the club.

In the second phase, boys and girls must be enrolled by their mother, father or guardian, holders of the AUH, and choose the activity of their preference from the available offer. If you meet the requirements, the scholarship will be awarded. Registration for clubs is now open at argentina.gob.ar/hayequipo.