Malacacheta Judo Social Project

The Malacacheta Social Project started in 2012, at the initiative of former athletes Luiz Alberto Gama de Mendonça (in memoriam), first Brazilian Pan-American Judo champion and Silvana Nagai, Brazilian judo champion, with the aim of using Judo as a tool for human development, social integration and fostering education and culture.

Imbued with this purpose, Luiz Alberto and Silvana Nagai started the work of the Nagai Association in Rio de Janeiro, with the Social Project Malacacheta, initially serving approximately 40 students. Soon the community joined the project, not only because it offered, free of charge, the practice of a sports modality in the locality, which offers little or nothing of leisure, culture and sport to residents, but, above all, by promoting an educational process with perceived results. by the families involved. And then, in less than a year, the project jumped from 40 to 150 students.

All Nagai students have in common the discipline and commitment to their own training, both educational and personal, to contribute to the growth and mutual benefit of society, which is not by chance one of the principles of Judo, the Jita Kyoei.

Thus, challenging the social ills of 260 children, adolescents and young people living in popular communities in Rio de Janeiro, and the difficulties of democratizing sport in Brazil, the Nagai Association aims to: Ensure the Right to Sports and Leisure Practices by promote Sports Inclusion; Promote Education and Culture; Improve Quality of Life and Health; Disseminate Human Values essential to Citizen Education; Strengthen family and community ties by bringing pride and improving self-esteem; Structure a program of competitions, expanding and qualifying participation at all ages and Expanding the Perspectives of the Future.

Methodology

The Nagai Association unites Sport, Education and Culture, using judo as a tool for social integration and cultural activities, outings, championships and belt exams to encourage the search for new knowledge and new opportunities and prospects for the future.

Through the methodology, the Nagai Association disseminates values such as Discipline, Responsibility, Respect, Humility and Solidarity.

Band exams, tours and championships must be conquered by the students, so that they are committed to their own educational and personal development. This means: having an exemplary social, family, school and sports behavior. In this sense, family involvement is a strategy to achieve expressive results with students.

Today more than 20 athletes/students have scholarships at Colégio Elite, one of the best private schools in Rio de Janeiro, guaranteeing access to Quality Education for those that stand out for their commitment to their own development.

Students with high performance in Judo is a natural consequence of the dedication and commitment of students that the methodology promotes, one of the spontaneous results of the work developed by the NAGAI Association.

Nagai also works with a training program for multipliers, in which students discover new skills and start an initiation in their professional trajectory as monitors in judo.

Results

The improvement of the students' behavior and school grade resulted in the community's adhesion and generated incentives - in parents and guardians, students and in the community itself - for commitment to development.

Sensei Matheus Idalino, 20 years old, resident of the Complexo do Alemão community, university student of Ed. Physics crusoe.

Sensei Welison Gregório, 20 years old, resident of the Complexo do Alemão community, university student of Ed. Physics crusoe.

Ryan Guimarães, 18, resident of the Complexo do Alemão community, Brazilian champion of the Youth School Games, bronze in the European Circuit of Coimbra, dreams of a better future, through Judo.

Team

President of the Nagai RJ Association, General Coordinator: Silvana Nagai, Master in High Performance Sports Training and Post-Graduation in Judo.

Director of the Nagai RJ Association, Financial Administrative Coordinator: Rejane Luna, Technology Manager of Information.

Institutional Development Consultant: Monica Kondziolková, Communication Management Specialist with 25 years of experience in the development of social organizations.

Judo Instructors: Welison Gregório and Matheus Idalino, multipliers of methodology, black belt trained by the Project, students of the Physical Education Course.

Contacts

Rejane Luna: (21) 98856-5259, e-mail: contato@associacaonagai.org.br
Monica Kondziolková: (11) 95962.9666, e-mail: mkondz@hotmail.com