The Minister of Sports, Francisco Camacho has set on his agenda to develop what he calls “Community Sports Centers” (CDC), which will serve to give more life to different communities in the country.
Camacho made it clear what the CDC’s goal is. “We want to change the face of an empty field. We have designed the CDC where apart from the field with its bleachers, with its bathrooms, we have rooms for the community to use ”, said the minister, even using it to celebrate a wedding, instead of paying for a room outside its territory.
Therein lies the objective raised by Camacho: “That the neighborhoods have a place where they can carry out their activities, where someone wants to have a birthday, the CDC is there to do it.”
Several of those models are in the works and others are in the pipeline. In Mella (Independencia province), in Villa Las Matas, in Cotuí (Sánchez Ramírez province), in Peralvillo (Monte Plata, the construction of the CDC is planned, Camacho let us know during his visit to the Free Dialogue, organized by Diario Libre.
This is part of what should bring clubs to life as well. He gave an example that probably the Jobo Bonito sector is not known, but we do know the San Lázaro Club, a traditional entity of the capital’s sport. “Our country has private clubs that are quite expensive and the vast majority of Dominicans do not have access, well, we are going to take them to the neighborhoods. It has been a wish of the President (Luis Abinader) since we came to the Government that sport return to the neighborhoods, that the neighborhoods have their clubs.
A sports development plan?
The Dominican Republic lacks, like some other sectors of national life, what is a long-term plan.
Minister Camacho seeks to remove the Dominican sport from that line and give it a systematic stamp. “We have already delivered a program to the president until 2030,” Camacho said.
The Miderec, under the management of Jaime David Fernández Mirabal, proposed a plan that the Dominican Olympic Committee rejected, leaving it in limbo. This time, Camacho awaits another destiny. “We already have a projection of what sport should be, where it should focus until 2030,” he said. Will you have a favorable echo in your claim?
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