E-ducare's Jerusalema Challenge arrives in Sarroch. The project that proposes a dance with the help of children and teenagers from different countries, will be carried out by the Francesco Ciusa 1st grade secondary school involving all sixth grade students. We will start with lessons this week: Silvia Paola Lai, former Sardinian champion of artistic gymnastics and territorial coordinator of E-ducare, and the professor of Physical Education, Daniela Decortes, will coordinate the steps of the challenge.
The initiative, promoted by the Irish non-profit association, aims to make children and young people who come from different geographical and economic realities dance together, but also to overcome any sense of inadequacy, to integrate and welcome diversity, to work all together, creating a solidarity project. E-ducare, founded by the Italian Pierluigi Coscia, deals precisely with giving childhood back and guaranteeing the right to education for children in difficulty in Ireland, Vietnam and Tanzania.
E-ducare's Jerusalema Challenge is a solidarity challenge born about two years ago, when Silvia Paola Lai had created a choreography for her pupils in Pula. About a year later the dance was performed for the first time in schools with the participation of the Benedetto Croce di Pula and Dante Alighieri di Muravera institutes, the first schools involved in the project. The initiative had gone beyond the artistic performance, overcoming physical and cultural barriers and directly involving the children of the Karim orphanage supported by E-ducare, located in Arusha in Tanzania. The children of E-ducare had improvised dance steps, based on the videos made by the Italian students of Pula and Muravera and had answered the many questions of their Sardinian peers who asked them about their school. The success of E-ducare's international dance was finally crowned by its arrival in Ireland, where the Italian ambassador Ruggero Corrias hosted a solidarity day at his residence in Lucan House which involved more than one hundred children and young people of different nationalities .
So now the Jerusalema Challenge returns to Sardinia and leaves Sarroch ready to fly once again to Vietnam and Ireland. Professor Daniela Decortes explained that joining the challenge not only promotes sports education, but is also a powerful ethical teacher looking to the future: «We decided to join because it seemed like a good opportunity to do something for those children who are certainly less fortunate than the kids who will participate and to try to "sow" the idea from their young age that there is nothing more beautiful and rewarding than doing something for others. As in a team, everyone's commitment is necessary in order to do well and if even just one of them fully understands the importance that even a small personal action can change the "life" of those who are less fortunate for the better».
