Instilling values through sport
The Real Madrid Foundation’s adapted basketball schools are a support system for people with motor, intellectual, and sensory disabilities, promoting the transmission of values through sport. Within this framework, the wheelchair basketball social sports school program was launched in 2013, with the aim of offering a high-quality sporting activity to young people with disabilities who can’t always find adapted spaces to practice basketball.
Basketball promotes personal and social development
The Foundation also pays special attention to young people in the protection and foster care system – a group for whom sporting practice is particularly beneficial. In these contexts, basketball fosters personal and social development, strengthens a sense of belonging, motivation, teamwork, and self-esteem, and helps create positive role models that accompany minors in their educational process.
The visits from Mario Hezonja underline the value of these projects and offer a hugely positive experience for participants, highlighting the role of sport as a space for education, inclusion, and developmental cooperation.
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