School Project actions steadily spread across Cyprus

The annual programme run by the Ministry of Education and Sport of Cyprus named “Know your Sport” continues across the Nicosia district. This includes also activities run in conjunction with the CEV School Project ‘Play Volleyball – Grow with it’ by coaches Anastasia Pantelidou and Ioanna Constantinou, who work twice per week teaching Volleyball at the Sports Training Hall “Evangelos Florakis”.

Each working day almost 100 kids (boys and girls) aged nine to 11 from various primary schools of Nicosia take part in such lessons. The programme will continue up until March 2024 and it will cover all Nicosia primary schools.

The Ministry of Education and Sport already announced the start of such a programme also in Limassol district directed by Mrs Fotini Massou and run by coaches Antonios Liotatis and Maria Aristeidou. Mrs Massou and Doros Tooulias have already organised a volleyball training session involving all the Limassol primary school physical education teachers. As many as 30 teachers took part and this was a good and promising start for a programme that will run until April 2024. Three times per week kids aged nine to 11 will visit the sporting hall “Spyros Kyprianou” to learn how to play Volleyball. Such actions shall be organised in the Larnaca and Pafos districts as well during the period May-June 2024. 

In Nicosia, the women’s team of Anorthosis Famagusta accepted to join the CEV School Project coach Ioanna Constantinou for a charity volleyball event. It took place in the memory of Sotiris Michael - a great personality of the women’s team who served the club from 1987 until he passed away in 2021. Throughout those 34 years, the club achieved much success in all competitions (both under-age and senior). More than 200 people (former players, parents, and under-age players of the club) took part in this charity event. They created teams, including parents and their kids playing together, and raised the amount of 2,000 euros to share among families in need living in the area. All the participants expressed their satisfaction for the event while parents and their children played together or faced each other on the volleyball court. The coaches of the club have been approached to make sure that this charity event becomes a regular tradition.