Boxe For Change (B4C) is a multi-year international project, approved by the European Union, led by the Italian Boxing Federation, along with Scholas, a non-profit organization created by Pope Francis, which is particularly important and active in Latin American countries and Spain, and the Romanian Boxing Federation (FRB). Two external resources have also been involved in the project due to their expertise, Sport Without Borders, and Eurocube. B4C will involve 60 institutions in Spain, Italy, and Romania, including some juvenile correctional facilities, with the aim of combating the slow and steady youth disengagement from sports, accelerated by the 2020 pandemic, which particularly affected younger age groups. The mission of this project is precisely to address, through boxing, the decline in insufficient physical activity, which, as emphasized by a WHO study, already affected young people aged 11-16 before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The project will involve over 2000 students (1000 in Italy, 500 in Spain, and 500 in Romania), 80 trained and involved coaches (40 Italians, 20 Spaniards, and 20 Romanians), 40 physical education teachers (20 from Italy, 10 from Romania, and 10 from Spain), 35 high schools, and 5 juvenile detention centers.
