Meeting the institutions in Havana

The Inter Campus delegation have recently returned from Havana, Cuba, following a visit which featured meetings with some important international institutions.

The members of the delegation met Ricardo Nu�ez, Matilde Fresa and Simone Buosi, representatives of the UN’s Programme on Development at the UN offices. They then delivered kits for the four centres to Roland Garc�a, the vice president of the Cuban Football Association at their headquarters at the Estadio Pedro Marrero. Finally, they met the Italian Ambassador, Carmine Robustelli, who is very familiar with – and a long-time advocate of – the Inter Campus Cuba project.

Inter Campus has been working on the island for more than a decade in four sites, located in Havana, Las Tunas, Granma and Holgu�n, via projects involving 240 boys and girls aged 6-13 and 12 local educator-coaches. The project’s mission statement is to give children back the right to play in healthy conditions, using the game of football as a tool to develop young people’s personalities and as a place to meet, socialise and grow.

Over this period, besides providing their usual technical training to the local educator-coaches, Inter Campus has also built up a good relationship with the institutions on the island. Inter Campus therefore involves a number of different actors, including the Cuban Football Association, the UNDP and the Italian Embassy in Cuba. The parties will work together over the next six months to create a network of stable relations between the groups involved in order to consolidate and build upon the Nerazzurri’s sporting and educational programme.