It offers this training for free through its Social Responsibility Chair, turning sport into a vehicle that generates activities, habits and positive values
The constant beeping of the gate assures me there is no turning back. At the main entrance I saw unshed tears and smiles that hid the hope of an uncertain future. After so many years, I still remember the first piece of advice from a good journalist: the details. Ultimately, as with photography, life is a matter of perspective and even more so in a prison. Camera in hand, I watch the people in the great hall.
There are only those who say goodbye and those who wait for their friend or relative to pass the first entrance. Entering the pavilion, I see the director of the International Chair of Social Responsibility at UCAM, Víctor Meseguer, and the director of Colectivo Paréntesis, Virginia Ayala, waiting for me.
The athlete Teresa Nimes is waiting for us in the room with a smile and the cry, “Come on, you’re going to miss the best.” Sitting down, I see how curiosity and emotion appear in the students of those present. In their routine, they work out every Monday with their teacher, Beatriz, but this time they take a class on motivation, empowerment and leadership through sport.
The predominant voices in this hour are those of the athletes Teresa Nimes and Antonio Peñalver recounting their sports careers, examples of effort, spirit of overcoming, resistance to adversity, camaraderie and teamwork; values that identify them and which have been a sign of identity both in their sporting and professional careers and in their personal sphere. All attendees are immersed in the conversation.
This activity is part of the EigenTitle taught by the Catholic University in the Murcia II Penitentiary Center, which is being developed within the framework of the Hermes program of the Parenthesis Collective Association.
It is a training in which sport becomes a means of conveying values of personal and social development, as well as the desire to improve and integrate.
With this project, the Catholic University of Murcia aims to help the penitentiary in tackling good habits, actively participating in the planning, implementation and supervision of daily sports activities, aimed at the entire prison population.
Source: La Verdad
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