World Judo Day celebrated by Makikomi, Serbia

World Judo Day celebrated by Makikomi, Serbia

by | Nov 11, 2022 | Blog & News

Judo club Makikomi on 28 october finished 1st circle of recruitment and adaptation period of PWID for Judo4all project. During the celebration JK Makikomi donated Judogi to all our new Judokas WID.
Many thanks to the Serbian National association for supporting persons with Autism (Autizam Serbia) who give us nationwide support through their network of organisations https://bit.ly/3UvzNt6.
Huge gratitude Makikomi ows to Special Primary School “Anton Skala” in Belgrade, their professors, parents council and management for giving the support and spreading the Judo4all project among their elementary school students and their parents.
Among the new judokas Makikomi club have recruited people with several types of Intellectual Disabilities (Authism spectrum disorder, retardation,multi intelectual disorder etc) and they are so happy to announce that their new friends are feeling very happy practicing Judo.
Adaptation period lasted much less time than the partners expected thanks to all of the team members, efforts and knowledge on working with PWID and this will be their first experience  that they are going to share in the TOOLKIT that all project partners will develop it together.
World Judo Day 2022 Celebrated in Drobeta Turnu Severin – Romania

World Judo Day 2022 Celebrated in Drobeta Turnu Severin – Romania

by | Nov 9, 2022 | Blog & News

WJD was a happy Friday with a common training with children and parents on Tatami. All participants celebrated the World Judo Day.

The training brought a lot of joy and laughter, especially for the “Atomic Kids” because they managed to “officially” beat their parents several times in different games/matches.

Also, the interaction between children with intellectual disabilities and children with typical development was perfect because they were included in the group immediately and no difference in attitude was reported/

During the event, the Romanian partner presented the “Judo4All” Project and presented the judo program for inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities who actually participate in this project and are visiting the trainings, and were applauded by all the participants.

The moment of handing out the “World Judo Day 2022/Inclusion” Diplomas was received with other applause and joy, but the most awaited moment was the cutting of the cake made especially for this day of celebration of Judo Day and the “Judo4All” Project .

Judo Club Drim Struga won 13 medals in 3 different countries

Judo Club Drim Struga won 13 medals in 3 different countries

by | Nov 7, 2022 | Blog & News

On November 6, 2022, the lead partner of Judo4All project participated in three international competitions, namely:

  1. “Philipos” in Amindeo, Greece where the club won 9 medals from 9 participants
  2. “November 13” Cetinje, Montenegro with 2 medals from 4 participants
  3. “Mioki Open” Skopje Macedonia 2 medals from 3 participants

The following junior and senior judokas took their medals as a reward of their success:

In Amindeo:

  1. Mila Stojmilovska ?
  2. Martina Salvi ?
  3. Eleonora Josifoska ?
  4. David Spiroski ?
  5. Michela Jaulevska ?
  6. Sergej Blazeski ?
  7. Katerina Klenjoska ?
  8. David Shuleski ?
  9. Albin Cholaku ?

In Cetinje:

  1. Dorian Petkoski ?
  2. Mila Stojanova ?

In Skopje:

  1. Annamaria Stojmilovska ?
  2. Amar Bajramoski ?

Bozidar Juloski, Anastasia Trajcheska and Irinej Bakraceski also showed excellent skills.

This is proof that with a good organizational setup, quality training process, results are inevitable!

During the nonformal program of the competitions the participants of Judo Club Drim Struga used the opportunity to present and promote Judo4All project and it’s activities, with focus on the inclusive judo program and traings that are currently organizing in Macedonia, Serbia and Romania where +20 people with intellectual disabilities are involved. They also shared that on the upcoming Competition Struga Open in 2023 there will be special category for judokas with intellectual disabilities.

Celebrating World Judo Day in Struga, Macedonia

Celebrating World Judo Day in Struga, Macedonia

by | Nov 4, 2022 | Blog & News

On the occasion of October 28 WORLD JUDO DAY under the motto INCLUSION, PORAKA NOVA and Judo Club “Drim” Struga held a joint celebration of the day as part of the Judo4All project.

The celebration took place from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. on Marshall Tito Street, the city center in Struga, where educational materials for judo inclusive training for people with intellectual disabilities were distributed and a presentation on training for people with disabilities was conducted.

The partners from Poraka Nova promoted the project on the people who expressed interest for the project activitites and the partners from Judo Club Drim Struga had a chance to demonstrate how judo is practiced and how the excercizes are adapted to the people of intelectual dissabilitites.

In our judo4all project and inclusive program in Macedonia we have +10 participants how are visiting the classes each week and are trained to be judokas. We are very proud that we can provide this opportunity for the people with intellectual disabilities and that within this partnership we are creating a unique inclusive judo program. By the end of the project the partners will develop a toolkit for inclusive judo that later will serve other organizations and clubs as a resource for their inclusive judo trainings.

Online Partners Meeting

Online Partners Meeting

by | Oct 21, 2022 | Blog & News

Yesterday we had the online partners meeting where representatives from the partners organizations and clubs joined: Judo Club “Drim” Struga,  PORAKA NOVA from Macedonia,  Asociatia Judeteana de Judo Mehedinti from Romania and Makikomi club from Serbia.
During the meeting all participants discussed how the recuritment proccess was organized, success and challenges of the inclusive judo program that is implemented currently in 3 countries. We had time do share ideas about our next activities, the toolkit for inclusive judo and as well the dissemination process of Judo4All project.

On the agenda were few points for disscussion:

1. Changes in the timeline
2. Overall project management and coordination
3. Creation of an Inclusive Judo Program Toolkit
4. Realization of the Inclusive Judo Training
5. Organization of Winter Judo Camp in Serbia
6. Overall dissemination and exploitation
7. Creation of an awareness-raising campaign
8. Production of an awareness-raising video
9. Development of project website.
Stay tuned, we are preparing interesting events and campaigns in the upcoming period.