**Community Partner:** Fundación Real Madrid - Adapted School Basketball

**Social Issue:** Intellectual Dissabilites

**Ambassadors:** 

**Main Life Skills:** Respect, Autonomy, Equality, Companionship, Health, Motivation, Self-esteem

**About the program:**

Real Madrid is continuing to incorporate its One Team activities into the successful program of the Real Madrid Foundation, ‘Adapted School Basketball’. This initiative provides high-quality basketball-related activities to participants with disabilities who don't usually find many opportunities to play. All sessions are adapted to their special needs with qualified teachers and coaches. The main objectives are to teach the participants how to play basketball while also embedding positive values such as team spirit, autonomy, equality or self-esteem. The program also promotes health and hygiene. Real Madrid is working from October to June with 300 people from 12 years old, twice a week with 28 groups in 15 different facilities all around the city. Real Madrid Foundation also develops another basketball project for people with physical or intellectual disabilities, like wheelchair schools or inclusive schools.

The Fernando Martín Adapted School will lead the program, with a focus on promoting real inclusion through sport and fostering personal development. Real Madrid’s commitment to this project reflects the club’s broader mission of using basketball to improve lives and build a more inclusive society.