EXELIXI ZOIS teamed up with KAE OLYMPIAKOS on the corporate responsibility project of Euroleague entitled ONE TEAM aiming to give children access to sports .This was the first time that KAE OLYMPIAKOS participated in such an educational project with teenagers who reside in institutions, helping to strengthen them emotionally and physically.
EXELIXI ZOIS and KAE OLYMPIAKOS continue “digitally’ their program aiming to provide access to sports activities to adolescents residing in institutions.
EXELIXI ZOIS teamed up with KAE OLYMPIAKOS on the corporate responsibility project of Euroleague entitled ONE TEAM aiming to give children access to sports .This was the first time that KAE OLYMPIAKOS participated in such an educational project with teenagers who reside in institutions, helping to strengthen them emotionally and physically.
ONE TEAM is the Euroleague’s corporate responsibility project, which began in 2012 with the participation of 8 teams (Olympiakos, Real Madrid, CSKA Moscow, Armani Milan, Unicaja Malaga, Anadolou Efes S.K, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Alba Berlin,). Its aim is for each team to develop a project helping socially sensitive groups, thus helping them integrate.
Through the ONE TEAM project KAE OLYMPIAKOS helps through sports, and mainly basketball the groups that participate to integrate socially by developing their skills and belonging in a team made up of others of their own age group.
This program was initiated in the Peace and Friendship stadium but now continues in a digital form every Monday. The coach prepares some drills -games according to the project’s aims. Every session is followed by a discussion on the motivations and the aims set during the lesson and the results obtained.
Subjects include: Personal responsibility, ambitions, sense of community, effort, motivation, understanding, empathy, respect, confidence, time management, self-esteem, team building among others.
Finally, the coach shows them how to perform gym exercises as well as dance moves to the participants combining sports and entertainment.
The beneficiaries of this program are 11 girls residing in the Girls’ Home Agios Alexandros.
This program was initiated in the Peace and Friendship stadium but now continues in a digital form every Monday. The coach prepares some drills -games according to the project’s aims. Every session is followed by a discussion on the motivations and the aims set during the lesson and the results obtained.
Finally, the coach shows them how to perform gym exercises as well as dance moves to the participants combining sports and entertainment.
The beneficiaries of this program are 11 girls residing in the Girls’ Home Agios Alexandros.
EXELIXI ZOIS
The NGO EXELIXI ZOIS was founded in March 2018 and is aimed at minors and adults of adolescent or post adolescent age, coming from closed child protection institutions. Our aim at EXELIXI ZOIS is to take care of young people aged 12-17 as well as care for those 18-25 who have left or are leaving institutional care. Our actions aim to ensure that the passage from one age group to another is done smoothly and that at the same time these young people have all the support, practical and psychological, to be able to claim a better future and face tomorrow with confidence.
ISN (The Stavros Niarchos Foundation) supports EXELIXI ZOIS
The founding of EXELIXI ZOIS was made possible with the valuable contribution of the ISN,The ISN with its founding donation supports the first steps of NGO EXELIXI ZOIS, and in particular actions aimed at educating, exercising ,assisting the cultural and social development as well as the psychological support of young people living in closed care institutions.
ONE TEAM project
One Team, Euroleague Basketball's corporate social responsibility (CSR) program, supported by Turkish Airlines as the One Team Founding Patron and with the collaboration of Special Olympics as Proud Partner, uses basketball to achieve real social impact in our communities. With an innovative model of interconnectedness across an entire continent, Euroleague Basketball and its clubs have developed a complete CSR program that brings together activities from each team in an integrated, impactful way, working under the theme of "community integration". Each participating club develops a specific One Team project tailored to its own community needs to benefit groups in danger of exclusion due to problems such as substance abuse and gender, physical or intellectual disability. Since its founding in 2012, the One Team program has reached already directly and indirectly 19,000 participants through its various team projects.
