CE Bellvitge (L’Hospitalet) will celebrate this Friday, November 14, from 6:00 p.m., its events for the 45th anniversary.
November 14th: anniversary of CE Bellvitge
The Bellvitge Recreation Club (L’Hospitalet) will celebrate tomorrow, Friday, November 14, its events for the 45th anniversary, with which it wants to share with everyone the important social and educational work it has done over the years and that it continues to do today with more than 500 children and young people and their families. The Bellvitge Recreation Club is a benchmark for a daily leisure model, with an option for socio-educational work with quality and equity criteria and which was the initial seed of a great social and educational project at national level that is Fundesplai, the Fundació Catalana de l’Esplai.
Friday’s events, which will be attended by the president of the Bellvitge Club, Charles Beard; the president of Fundesplai, Josep Gassó, the Mayor of L’Hospitalet, Nuria Marín and the Minister of Social Welfare and Family, Neus Munté; They will begin at 6 p.m. with a children’s show in the square located in front of the esplai (Rambla Marina 161-177, L’Hospitalet), will continue at 7 p.m. with a parade through historical places by the entity and the inauguration of a photographic exhibition. Institutional speeches will be held at 8.30 p.m. The event will end with the presentation of a video about the history of CE Bellvitge and one blowing out the candles on a birthday cake.
45 years of work for education and social cohesion
The Club was born in 1969 in Bellvitge, a neighborhood of L’Hospitalet, which was being built a few years ago to accommodate thousands of people from all over Spain. At that time, urban conditions and lack of services were very deficient. In that context, a group of young people started making children’s films on Sundays. Shortly afterwards, they organized the camps and did leisure activities every day in basements that flooded when it rained. The residents’ movement halted the construction of more houses and a partial plan was approved in 1977 that reserved green spaces and facilities. One of these was a plot of land to build a facility for children and young people. Five years later, in 1982, with democracy already in place, the Club’s new facility was inaugurated with the cession of the site from the City Council, funding from the Generalitat and the signing of agreements with both administrations.
Currently, the Bellvitge Recreation Club is an entity that develops with more than 500 children and young people a year activities ranging from the most traditional recreation, to others focused on the school environment or training. The Bellvitge Recreation Club does not close any month of the year, because in August it organizes a summer camp to respond to the needs of children in situations of social vulnerability.
Seed of a project of national scope: Fundesplai.
The Bellvitge Recreation Club is the origin of many things: a benchmark leisure model in Catalonia and the seed of many leisure centres in L’Hospitalet, Baix Llobregat and Catalonia. Indeed, the entity was the seed of a social and educational project that is Fundesplai (Fundació Catalana de l’Esplai), one of the main references of leisure education in our country, a significant actor in the third sector in Catalonia and an important ally of the educational community and public administrations. Last year, Fundesplai’s action reached nearly 200,000 people.