In the new school year, the program “Sport in Schools” will start as a platform of the Ministry of Education and Sport to consolidate components of Phisical education in teaching curricula. On the eve of the program, Prime Minister Edi Rama attend at the palace of sports a training session of teachers of physical education form the city of Vlora.

Besides recalling that only 4% of Albanians are involved in physical activity, among the lowest levels in Europe, the Prime Minister stressed that it is time to overturn this percentage. The program aims to educate, particularly young people, physical education.

“At the beginning of the new school year, we will launch the major program” Sport in school”, which means that we need to start from preparing teachers of physical education and hiring of a number of new and significant teachers who are capable of withstanding the demands of school sports platform. And, here in Vlora, it is a pleasure to be attending a training session. This is just the beginning. It will be a difficult start, but a necessary one. Let us not forget that we are the only country in Europe, ranked penultimate, as far as physical activity of the population is concerned. On a continent scale, only 4% do physical exercises, while in Finland, where for three quarters of the year there is darkness, 92% do physical exercises, “- the Prime Minister said.

For Prime Minister Rama, physical activity is related to the quality of time, health and lifestyle, and underlined that the Albanian society should deal seriously with some problems related to non-practice of physical activity.

“Exercise is not an end in itself, but is concerns the entire public health structure in a society, and all the guarantees that systems provide for growth, social welfare and health. It is proven that a Euro invested in sport and physical education is equivalent to three Euros spent on health. The massive increase of tumor diseases is related to non-practice. Just as today, unfortunately, Europe has a population with the greatest extent of overweight, nearly 50%, while 25% of the population is obese. These are alarming figures of a deeply underdeveloped society, but these figures can be overturned starting from school. Let us not forget that sport for all, sport in schools is a great help provided to parents so that they can take away their children from the path of many other harmful alternatives”- the Prime Minister said while stressing that a society that jogs and takes care of health increases also the quality of community life