SPORTS ACTIVITIES AS TOOLS FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION

Abstract

The sports activity, and physical activity in diverse urban spaces has gained importance in the process of social inclusion and improving the quality of life of people living in the suburbs of large cities. In this perspective, in Rio de Janeiro were created "Olympic Villages." Armed with sports courts, swimming pools, athletic fields and structure and social work education, meaning they have real possibilities of socialization between segments relegated to the margins of society in Rio. The city of Rio de Janeiro has a migrant population from various regions of Brazil, who comes in search of the labor market, such displacements produce houses not worth the human person in the suburbs of the city of Rio. These geographies have a significant young population that lack of political entertainment and recreation, are often sponsored by parallel power, becoming the victims of urban violence. Based on this fact, several projects are implemented by the municipal government in partnership with academia, civil society organizations. In this context, it is where young people are exposed to the evil of the universe looks marginal prioritized in this article is that the experience of a Clara Nunes Olympic Village, located in the district of Acari. The Olympic Village project not only aims to promote a healthy sports activities for the youth of the neighborhood Acari, but also to include them and their families in a just society and rights through actions that promote access to basic rights of citizens resident geography of this city of Rio de Janeiro.