LIMA 2019 WILL GIVE 35,000 TICKETS TO SCHOOLCHILDREN FOR THE PARAPAN AMERICAN GAMES

The start of the Parapan American Games will also mark the beginning of the second period of one of the most important and significant experiences that Lima 2019 has promoted in the social and educational fields: the “Soy Lima 2019” campaign.  

In its first period, all the emotion of Lima 2019 was introduced in 31 schools of Lima Metropolitan Area, seeking to promote—through different types of activations, socio-cultural shows and visits from the athletes and Para athletes—the Olympic and Paralympic values of the Games among the students.  

Now, in this second period, the schoolchildren will be able to visit the Lima 2019 venues to witness how these values are impersonated by the best Para athletes of the Americas.  

At the beginning, “Soy Lima 2019” benefited 31000 students between April and June. This time, the number of schools will increase because it will also include the people that already participated in the campaign of the Ministry of Education, through the Peruvian Institute of Sports (IPD), named “Top Peru at Schools” and the “Callao es Lima” campaign, organized by the Regional Government of Callao, which aimed to promote the sports and Para sports of these Games.  

Thus, a total of 57 schools will receive 35,140 tickets (22,121 tickets will be for competitions that take place during the day and 13,019 in the late-afternoon.) Additionally, the students will have to be accompanied by teachers, parents and/or people from the Regional Directorate of Education of Lima (DRELM) and the Regional Directorate of Education of Callao (DREC). To this end, coordination is being carried out with these bodies. 

It is expected that this initiative becomes a significant experience, that will make Paralympic values, such as courage and determination, the motor the lives of thousands of young Peruvians, reminding them that even when the path of their lives is too long, they have to set the finish line by themselves.