Calciosociale<\/strong>, a non-profit amateur sports club operating in youth contexts at high risk of deviance, offering educational and pedagogical activities that involve the child and their family at 360 degrees.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nA strong signal for the neighborhood’s residents and a precious gift for the children who, from today, have a new area to play in, built on the principles of the circular economy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The collection of exhausted sports shoes through the esosport<\/strong> project has the ultimate goal\u2014thanks to a recycling process\u2014of generating secondary raw material, which was used to create the playground’s shock-absorbent flooring.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cGiving back to the territory and donating to those who have nothing: this is the meaning of our project for the Corviale district in Rome,\u201d states Nicolas Meletiou, President of the GOGREEN Association<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cWe are happy to have been able to bring this space to life: children will finally have an area where they can have fun, express themselves through play, and learn to be together.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cFor us, it was a great emotion to see the children playing in this new playground with flooring obtained from recycled sports shoes,\u201d says Massimo Vallati, President of Calciosociale<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cCampo dei Miracoli is the field of inclusion, social innovation, and the circular economy. Thanks to this project, it gains even more value. In our vision, Campo dei Miracoli is a great laboratory for social, cultural, and environmental innovation in the city of Rome. Our hope is that this Betty\u2019s Garden will be an example for the whole city. This is our dream!\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cThe Retake Roma association actively collaborated on this project by involving its 80 groups present throughout the capital,\u201d says Francesca Elisa Leonelli, President of Retake Roma<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cThe approximately 2 tons of used sneakers collected by Retake have become part of the shock-absorbent flooring of this Betty\u2019s Garden. Retake will continue its commitment to collecting shoes to raise awareness among more students and citizens about the importance of reuse and recycling.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cBetty\u2019s Garden\u201d is dedicated to Elisabetta Salvioni Meletiou, wife of Nicolas Meletiou, Managing Director of ESO Societ\u00e0 Benefit, who supported her husband in running the esosport<\/strong> project until July 2, 2011, the date of her untimely passing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Corviale playground was designed by Cristina Cardini, built by Edilnard, and also saw the precious support of Generali, OVS, ESO, Il mio dono, and Tecno Service Italia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Upon entering the park, children can immediately access three different spring riders, which have been oriented so that, while rocking, they can face each other. The choice of this type of equipment was not accidental. These games are designed to create an opportunity for recreation and socialization, through which children are spontaneously encouraged to develop empathy, respect, and dialogue. Furthermore, the fact that the springs are deeply rooted takes on a symbolic meaning centered on the concept of resilience.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Present at the inauguration:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\nNicolas Meletiou, President of the Gogreen Association<\/li>\r\n Massimo Vallati, President of Calciosociale<\/li>\r\n Roberto Tavani, Delegate for Sport for the Lazio Region<\/li>\r\n Paolo Sannini, Retake Association<\/li>\r\n Manuela Olivieri Mennea<\/li>\r\n Gianluca Lanzi, newly elected President of Municipality XI<\/li>\r\n Giorgio Farroni, silver medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPaolo Masini, President of BPA<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn the photo from the left: Nicolas Meletiou, Roberto Tavani, Giorgio Farroni, Manuela Olivieri Mennea, Gianluca Lanzi<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
EQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION SHEET<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe ability of a material to bend without ever breaking strongly embodies the project’s philosophy and finds a triple value here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
As many psychological, pedagogical, sociological, and anthropological studies maintain, childhood is the age when the most influential and decisive foundations are created for the formation of a strong character, free from fears and preconceptions, open to new experiences, and capable of resisting difficulties with resilience.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Learning to react with elasticity and balance, and finding the ability to face life through proactive, free, and energetic action can begin in the early stages of existence, even before a rational understanding of its importance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In this context and with this intent, “Betty\u2019s Gardens” are born.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Furthermore, in accordance with sensitivity toward environmental issues and the understanding of the need to create social value in an innovative, inclusive, and forward-looking direction, the fact that in ecology resilience represents the speed at which a biotic community is able to restore its stability in the face of disturbances enhances the concrete hope that inspires, guides, and constitutes the essence of esosport.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Climbing and managing to reach the top independently does not only allow children to vent and channel their energy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The sense of achievement and victory felt when reaching the top can influence the formation of self-esteem. Moreover, climbing in a protected environment, specifically designed for children’s safety and in the open air, allows for interaction with peers and can stimulate the ability to pay attention to others, acquiring a spirit of solidarity fundamental to our society.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u00a0 ROME, October 20, 2021 – A new …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,319,279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news-en","category-the-bettys-garden"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14006,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions\/14006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esosport.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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