MARIGOT–To compensate for the lack of sports infrastructure due to its destruction by the 2017 hurricanes, the Collectivité decided to develop spaces dedicated to sport in the courtyards of primary schools. The rehabilitation, or even reconstruction, of sports complexes in secondary schools, colleges and Lycées, is scheduled for the end of 2018 and the year 2019.
Until Hurricane Irma, kindergarten and primary schools used the sports complexes outside their school compounds in their sectors. Secondary schools were equipped with sports facilities. All this infrastructure has been destroyed. There is nothing left of the facilities at Quartier d’ Orléans Collège.
The Cité Scolaire Robert Weinum in La Savane has also been rendered unusable: the grounds and the roof of the covered hall have to be redone in their entirety. Only the football field and the athletics track can be used. The same applies to the vocational secondary school and Collège du Mont des Accords.
However, the Collectivité has chosen to rehabilitate stadiums and sports complexes located outside schools that can be used by the schools. With 900,000 euros available, sports facilities in secondary schools should be restored by the end of 2018.
To rehabilitate the sports facilities of Cité Scolaire Robert Weinum, the Collectivité has committed a budget of 750,000 euros. Finally, an envelope of 1.5 million euros will be needed for the reconstruction of the sports complex of the Quartier d’ Orléans Collège. Work is scheduled to start in early 2019.
A sum of 251,000 euros has been set aside for the creation of sports areas in primary-school courtyards to make up for the lack of outdoor infrastructure.
Throughout this particular school year following Hurricane Irma, the Collectivité appointed eight Territorial Physical and Sports Activities Educators (ETAPS) who have remained permanently in the schools to provide compulsory hours of sports activities for students.
This operation will be repeated next year, and sports educators and students will be able to benefit from sports equipment that will be installed in the school courtyards. With regard to swimming – a compulsory discipline also in primary education – a temporary pool will be installed in Grand Case Bay, pending the construction of a real swimming pool planned in the construction of the new Albéric Richards sports complex.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/79348-collectivite-committed-to-repair-stadiums-sports-infrastructure
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