Evnikos Basketball

Evnikos sports club (ESC)

Evnikos sports club is a nongovernment sports organization. Evnikos sports club is a voluntary group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Our activities take place in the west of Athens where are a lot of social inequalities in contrast with the area of the east of the metropolitan city of Athens (Attica).

The aim of the organization is to encourage and support children and youth, represented mainly by disadvantaged people, to participate in Educational sports or physical Activities provoking their own Social Transformation moving from their ascribed status to a new achieved status for themselves.(E.A.S.T.).

Evnikos believes that if children and youth participate in any type of both formal or informal sports and physical activities, they can seize a unique opportunity to stay physically and mentally fit, to better and easly interact and integrate with other social groups, to learn to be part of a team and accept the principle of fair play, to regulate social behavior and create a feeling of belonging ,which in turn leads to a strengthening of democracy.

Also Evnikos believes that voluntary sport may help develop competencies important to democratic understanding, cooperation, gender equality, leadership and organization.

Evnikos members organize or participate as volunteers in any kind of sports events or activities, such as indoor or outdoor and formal or informal sports events, grassroots sports events, recreational sports events, physical activities.

In addition, Evnikos promotes and develops volunteering in the sport and physical activity sector as well as it promotes the participation of young adults in any consultations, debates or decision making processes in the field of sports.

Since 1984 Evnikos operates with baskeball. As of today, it has 21 basketball teams from the age of 4 until the age of 60, for men and women (400 athletes). Every year it organizes a three months basketball tournament for free, with 18 teams from elementary school, with great success in social integration.