· An agreement signed with the Xeral Secretariat for Sport will allow the Baiona club to consolidate and expand the activities of its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities
· Monte Real is the only club in Galicia that currently promotes this type of initiative at a supra-municipal level and seeks the full integration of the participants
· For the second consecutive year, a group of students from the club with different disabilities will sail under equal conditions in the Prince of Asturias Trophy that will be held next September
The Xunta de Galicia and the Monte Real Yacht Club will collaborate one more year to promote adapted sailing in Galicia. They will do so thanks to an agreement signed this morning between the Xeral Secretariat for Sports and the Baiona club, which provides for the expansion of the activities of its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities.
Currently, Monte Real is the only club in Galicia that organizes initiatives of this type at a supra-municipal level and seeks the full integration of the participants, among whom there are people with all kinds of disabilities, both physical and psychosocial, cognitive and sensory. . The club’s Adapted Sailing School is also the only one in the north of the peninsula that operates throughout the year.
At the signing of the agreement, the General Secretary for Sports of the Xunta de Galicia, José Ramón Lete, highlighted the fact that some of the school’s students will participate, for the second consecutive year, in the Prince of Asturias Trophy, which shows, he said, that total integration is one of the objectives of the Monte Real Adapted Sailing School.
From the Baionese club, both its president, José Luis Álvarez, and its vice president, Alejandro Retolaza, thanked the Xunta de Galicia for its support in continuing to bring the sea closer to people with disabilities and allowing all those who wish to sail with equal terms.
This was transmitted to the provincial head of the sports service of the Xunta de Galicia, Daniel Benavides, also present at the signing of the agreement. They also reminded him that on September 10 they will organize a new edition of the Vertiathlon, a solidarity triathlon with which they will raise funds for the club’s Adapted Sailing School.
