Montevideo, Uruguay - August 2022 - The Tacurú Movement, a Salesian social work located in Montevideo's suburban Lavalleja neighborhood, celebrated the anniversary of Don Bosco's birth and the Day of the Child with a celebration in different neighborhoods of Montevideo. More than 1,000 athletes, including youth and adolescents and children from Salesian social work, participated on August 14 in the 10- and 5-kilometer Marathon organized by the Movimento Salesianos Tacurú together with the Uruguayan Athletes Association. This Marathon, which ran through several suburban neighborhoods of the capital city, was a true experience of integration and sports, allowing them to experience the feast day of Don Bosco and make visible the daily work of the educators of the Tacurú Movement's Sports Projects. The Tacurú Movement is a Salesian organization of the Catholic Church that, since 1981, has been carrying out its socio-educational and pastoral work in the city context with one of the highest rates of poverty. Their work is embedded in a scenario of critical poverty that has long compromised the human growth of the individual and his or her community. In this context they develop multiple projects: sports, work, pastoral, vocational training, with tasks that daily question and challenge themselves in the transformation of the material and symbolic conditions of the lives of children, adolescents and youth. These tasks are carried out in different spheres of their identity: associative-recreational, formative-educational, operational-work, among others, and allow them to create the most varied opportunities for meeting and connecting with young people and, from there, with the world around them.

Adriana Porteiro

Salesian Communication | Provincial Delegate