05/31/2010

The organization by the Prevention, Assessment and Counseling Centers against drug consumption, in partnership with the local public administration and nongovernmental organizations, of some cultural sportive and artistic events with messages against drug consumption as a method of spending sparetime (according to chapter 1C from the Action Plan for the implementation of the National Strategy against drug consumption).

Objectives

The involvement in the campaigns in preventing youth and public persons, identification with the models by young people.
The development of a cooperation between the state institutions and the civil society, involved in the fight against drugs.
World Day NO TOBACCO, celebrated every year on the 31st of May, offers a frame for information and for people to be more sensitive regarding the risks caused by the tobacco consumption, the practices of the companies producing tobacco, the proceedings of the international forums regarding the fight against spreading diseases associated to the tobacco consumption, as well as regarding everybody’s right to live a healthy life.

Persons who are vulnerable to the drug consumption are teenagers and adolescents who are exposed to new, to new experiences, to the adoption of some risk behaviors, by means of some insufficient, partial and dangerous information by its manipulative effect.

The project will launch a local competition between the pupils from the primary and secondary school, thus young people can practice sport- as an alternative to tobacco consumption. National Agency Against Drugs advise all the members of the community, by means of campaigns, to create “no smoking places’, thus letting them know that passive smoking kills and causes sickness.

By means of this project we shall lead the pupils at “Stefan cel Mare” National College- Tg.Neamt, to practice a sport as an alternative of spending their spare time, without alcohol, tobacco or drugs. Pupils selected by their sport teachers of each primary and secondary class, will compete in a cross, on age and sex groups, in the central park of Tg.Neamt. The finalists will receive t-shirts printed with the company’s logos and the diploma, completed by the help of the sponsor: IZOTEC Ltd- producer no.1 of PVC windows and doors, Gealan mark.  

During the entire campaign, the members of the local communities will receive booklets containing information regarding risks and harmful effects of the tobacco consumption, posters will be posted in places frequented by youth and in the head office of public institutions.

The direct beneficiaries are the pupils from “Stefan cel Mare” National College (classes I-IV and V-VIII), and the indirect beneficiaries are the members of the local communities.

Sponsor: IZOTEC GROUP Ltd