The boys and girls residing in the Argana Alta neighborhood have demanded this Thursday a sports court to be able to play soccer in their free time. The spokesperson for the association La Vida es Zuaina, Irene Hernández, has explained in a recent interview on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero, the main reasons why they are demonstrating in the Arrecife neighborhood.
"We ask for an open and free space so that young people can play after arriving from school," said the woman. A place prepared so that the more than 3,000 young people who live in the neighborhood can play soccer. A necessary request for children to invest their free time in a healthy activity in the most populated neighborhood of Lanzarote. If they are not going to be doing sports, where are they going to be?, Hernández asked, launching a reflection to the listeners.
In order to have fun together for a while, young people access a school that is closed in the afternoons. The spokesperson criticizes the ways in which they have to enter the interior. "They have to break the fences to enter," she specified. In addition, it is a site that is not prepared to practice sports. "It is not enabled as a sports court," she added. What is demonstrated every day is that the different young people in the neighborhood do not want playing soccer with friends "to become something criminal," Hernández concluded.
They have created their own sports court
As an alternative to the lack of resources to be able to leave the Argana Alta neighborhood to play, one of the parents has decided to find a solution to the problem. "He has put a goal and some pallets and has created the Argana court, the only space we have at the moment," Hernández revealed. After taking that initiative, eight teams have emerged on the fly in the neighborhood, which demonstrates their "great desire to do things," she said.
A provisional sports space that they presented this Thursday at 6:00 p.m., in an act destined to make known the resources that "we are putting at the disposal of the boys and girls," she remarked. It is the only resource that exists in Argana Alta and very necessary given the situation of some of the families residing there. "They cannot access a vehicle to move from the neighborhood, in addition, without counting that it is not easy to access the other resources of the city," said the spokesperson.
From the group of parents of the neighborhood they recognize that they do not understand why there is no public sports court available. "There is no justifiable reason why there is no free court in Argana Alta," she pointed out.
