22.02.2011

DMS Corporation will finance the establishment of free hand-to-hand fighting sections

More than 260 thousand UAH were allocated by Financial and Industrial Corporation DMS for the programme concerning the organization of free hand-to-hand fighting sections for children and adolescents of Donetsk.
Financial and Industrial Corporation DMS together with Donetsk regional federation of hand-to-hand fighting with the support of Department of Education of Donetsk City Council initiated a long-term programme for organizing and financing free hand-to-hand fighting sections for children and adolescents in Donetsk.
In the 18 schools of the city (2 schools per each district in Donetsk) free sections began their work. Classes are held under the supervision of the coaching and teaching staff of DRFHTHF, titled sportsmen, champions of Ukraine in fighting. Trainings are held two times a week in the evening. The total duration of training sessions is 1.5 hours. The section can be joined by children and adolescents aged 8-16 years.
In the near future all gyms of schools-members of the programme will be equipped with tatami, sports equipment for young athletes for sparring will be purchased. Special attention in providing sections with sports equipment will be paid to remote districts of Donetsk, where there are practically no qualitatively equipped gyms where teenagers can do sports.
Free section started its functioning also in Donetsk City orphanage number 1 for homeless in Kuibyshev district.
Funding of the work is carried out within the section of the charitable programme of Financial and Industrial Corporations DMS. At the initial stage for the organization of work of free sports sections the Corporation allocated 260 thousand UAH to the fund of the Donetsk regional federation of hand-to-hand fighting.
Financial and Industrial Corporation DMS and DRFHTHF appeal to all not indifferent to the cause of promoting a healthy lifestyle among children and adolescents in Donetsk region and invites to participate in the further expansion of a network of free sections of hand-to-hand fighting in Donetsk and cities of Donetsk region.
According to the president of DMS Corporation Andrey Alyosha, today it is strategically important to create accessible conditions for school-aged children to do sports in order to prevent anti-social manifestations, providing health effect and promote healthy lifestyle among adolescents. “At this stage, our task is to form the habit of doing sports regularly in our children, get them off the streets, wean from addictions,”- he said.