Unis-Cité Association, a pioneer in offering Civic Service activities, is launching a sports program sponsored and funded by Coca-Cola.
The concept is simple: each local Unis-Cité receives a “Sport ça me dit” box and collaborates with local associations to organize free sports events open to everyone.
In Nice, Myriam Hadjazi is the project coordinator for Unis-Cité 06. She manages the “Sport ça me dit” partnerships with the city hall, associations, and social centers, which organize sports events in the city. “We will join these events one Wednesday per month.”
The goal of Unis-Cité 06 is to implement minor sports activities, “other than soccer,” Myriam specifies. In this “Box,” you can find materials for handball, ultimate frisbee, or even dodgeball.
Myriam wants this project to be intergenerational. It will be tomorrow, as families are invited to celebrate Women’s Day at the Ariane gymnasium. Children, adults, and the elderly will be able to exercise on the “Sport ça me dit” field.
But this will not always be the case. Unis-Cité 06 mainly collaborates with associations, event organizers, “who work with a specific type of audience, she admits, so we will not always be able to accommodate all generations at the same time.”
A Civic Service that serves everyone
Unis-Cité is an association that helps young people in difficulty through work and taking responsibilities. “Our team is made up of 20 volunteers, including ten minors. The adults are role models for them. They show them the example to follow,” she explains.
At the “Sport ça me dit” events, Myriam will alternate and often go with groups of four volunteers, completely mixed in terms of age and gender. These young people participating in the Civic Service feel invested with a mission.
Especially in sports, where they are vectors of mutual pleasure with the participants. It’s an undeniable factor of integration. And everyone benefits from it.
