The Davao City Sports and Development Division (SSD) targets to train 50 out-of-school youth from selected barangays and search for potential athletes among them.
Sports Development Division of the City Mayor’s Office (SDD-CMO) officer-in-charge Mikey Aportadera, during the I-Speak Forum held at the Davao City Hall conference room on Thursday, February 9, 2023, said that under the Aktibo Dabawenyo grassroots program, selected OSYs are given chance to be trained in athletics, skateboarding, football, dance sport, sepak takraw, swimming, chess, basketball, and arnis.
āGi-invite namo ang mga barangays and gi-enganyo namo ang ilang OSYs that this is for free, how this is going to work, of course, atong coaches and trainers sa amoang teams who were given medals and recognitions– sila ang mag conduct sa training, itās not us. We make sure that we will be able to select certain potential athletes from that level who hopefully would become representatives in an upcoming event as soon as they qualify (We invited the barangays and we encouraged their OSYs that this is for free. How this is going to work? Of course, our coaches and trainers of our teams who have already been given medals and recognitions ā¦ will conduct the training. We will make sure that we will be able to select potential athletes from that level that who hopefully would become representatives in an upcoming event as soon as they qualify),ā he said.
Aportadera said that for swimming, participants from the Badjau community at Km. 11 Sasa are specially selected.
Aktibo Dabawenyo, a health and wellness program of the city government, was previously coursed and aired as a segment of the Byaheng DO30 weekly news program. As the restrictions on sports events were lifted, the program resumes in the selected communities face-to-face as Aktibo-Dabawenyo Grassroots. The said program will start in the first quarter of 2023. CIO
