The Provincial Plenary of Activists, Voluntary Sports Councils (CVD) and Peñas Deportivas, of Havana, took place this Friday in the municipality of Boyeros
By: Oscar Alvarez
Each year, when December arrives, a review is made of what was done, what was left to be done or half done, and plans are drawn up for the following year.
It is an essential exercise for things to go better every day and in which recognition can not be missed for those who did the most in favor of the development of sport in Cuba, as happened in the Provincial Plenary of Activists, Sports Volunteer Councils and Peñas Sports, of Havana, that took place this Friday in the municipality of Boyeros.
In the meeting, dedicated to the Historical Leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, and to the 500th anniversary of Havana, were Justo Reinaldo Amador, head of the National Relations Department of INDER; Delvis Núñez Contrera, provincial deputy director of Sport for All; Doris Caravallo Sandoval, member of the Cuban Workers Confederation (CTC) in the Cuban capital, and Katia Riverón Fernández, member of the Provincial Bureau of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP).
The plenary session generated a fruitful debate in which both deficiencies and positive experiences in the work of the activists, the Voluntary Sports Councils (CVD), as well as the sports clubs of the capital were pointed out. There they recognized the work of the more than 17,000 activists in the city, their participation in the forums held during the year, as well as the improvement of these men and women, which was one of the most debated topics.
The participation in various events, both provincial and national, on the Day of Challenge, in different marathons or in the summer plan, was a sample of what was done by the activists of the capital. But while it is true that physical activity every day reaches more places, regardless of the age or sex of those who live in those areas, the truth is that not yet exploited all the potential that this movement can provide.
An example of the above was the claim to achieve sporting events between different circles of grandparents, in which, the main thing is not to compete -even when there is a desire to do the best possible- but to fraternize sports, exchange experiences or learn about of the others, in order to improve more and more the work they do.
During 2018 results were obtained at different levels in various sports, such as combat, thanks to the contribution of activists, whose work was fundamental in the entry of several athletes to the EIDE Mártires de Barbados, in specialties such as football and soccer. cycling.
Notwithstanding the importance given to this movement in the capital, one of the demands was to have systematic meetings where the work of both activists and members of the sports clubs, who total 245 in the city. The same happens with the Volunteer Sports Councils (CVD), some of which need specialized attention in their maintenance.
A moment of special emotion was the intervention of Aida Rodríguez, from a circle of grandparents with 90 members, in the municipality of Playa, who not only exhibited the experiences of what they do there, where, among other activities, they dance, sing, and They even practice fencing with the so-called “stick”, but gave a practical demonstration, I raise my legs to a height that not many of those present, with several years less, fail to lift, and all this despite its 220 pounds of weight.
At the end of the debate, and after the report was approved, it went to the necessary stimulation to those who did most in 2018 in the different categories that comprise the movement of activists, CVD workers and Peñas Deportivas de La Habana. In the individual categories, they were awarded, as sports activist, Jorge Álvarez Morejón; in Physical Culture, Silvia Reyes Tabío; Recreation, Hamed Labrador Crespo and Lázaro Díaz Fuentes; Apoyo, Jorge López Reyes and Juan Jesús Álvarez Posada; Judges and Referee, Nirania Pérez Santana.
Regarding the collective recognitions, the first to be delivered was for the CVD Obrero Cervecería Guido Pérez; CVD Circumscription 65, in Cotorro; CVD ANAP, Olvein Quesada Rodríguez, from Arroyo Naranjo. In the Peñas Deportivas movement, those of Armandito el Tintorero and La Azules de Corazón were recognized.