The ESC rugby club now welcomes people from the L’Albe day reception center for inclusive rugby workshops, where Sport rhymes with solidarity and sharing.
After a life -size test carried out a fortnight ago, and after consulting the main interested parties, the decision was made: the Catalan sports star (ESC) will regularly welcome people welcomed at the L’Albe day reception center.
It is on the proposal of Dorothée Perez and Emma Peytavi, rugby players, in partnership with Jordan Boulogne, Managing Director and Sports of the Argelésian club, that these inclusive workshops were created: “We have been thinking about this project for 3 years, explains Jordan. We offer tailor -made workshops, based on physical, engine, cognitive and emotional development of people with mental and/or physical disabilities “.
Vanessa Lahille, all new Albe department head was on the ground alongside Yvette Periot, who retired in early March, but wanted to see the culmination of this project. “Not everyone knew rugby. We showed them on tablet what rugby was 5. They were not all thrilled, but there, we can see that they like it. It’s really very positive”.
Everything has been validated upstream, with educators and Catalan childhood officials, an association on which the Albe depends. “We need trained people, Takes up Vanessa Lahille. You have to teach them to work together, which they agree to touch each other, to make passes “. For Jordy Selva, club technical advisor: “In fact, they are applicants. It is the only puff of oxygen that they have in the harshness of life. We tend to lock up people in their activities, their clubs … to stick labels to them. It is important to create bridges”. He takes a concrete example: “Ludo (one of the residents of the Albe), I was at the club with him when we were little. We grew up together: at the beginning, I was uncomfortable but then, I found it normal that he is with us, that we share the good times. That’s inclusion”. This last word makes Yvette Periot jump: “This word, inclusion, it annoys me! They, they feel like us. It is we who must include ourselves in their world!”.
Be that as it may, the “inclusive” rugby sessions also called adapted “rugby” begin with workshops and games which reproduce certain situations encountered during a match. “Little by little, we’re going to go to the rules, specifies Jordy. The important thing is to work on motor skills, but also solidarity, mutual aid, respect for the opponent … In short, it is to integrate the values of rugby, while having fun “.
About twenty people welcomed daily at the ALBE day care service, the Albe applied to participate regularly in these training sessions which will take place one week in two at the Gaston-Pams stadium.
