最終更新日: 1 月 13, 2023

A social project named Sueños de Arena (“Dreams of Sand”), chaired by Alejandro Veliz, a graduate of the Official Master’s Degree in Sport Management and co-founded with professional sandboarder Victor ‘Dito’ Chavez, is using the thrill of sandboarding to empower underprivileged youth in the Peruvian desert.

プロジェクト, which aims to promote and develop the discipline of sandboarding in Peru, provides free sport programs for children from poor communities in Ica.

These programs include sandboarding lessons on the slopes of the village-oasis of Huacachina, 肉体的および精神的コンディショニング, motivational speeches, workshops focused on developing values, and nutritional supplements.

「砂の夢" (砂の夢) sandboarding social project in Huacachina. イカ, ペルー.
このプロジェクトは、サンドボードというスポーツを通じてワカチナの弱い立場にある子供たちに力を与えることを目的としています。.

Empowering Youth Through Sandboarding

Dreams of Sand は、5 歳以上の子供と若者に無料のスポーツ プログラムを提供しています。 6 と 17, その多くは低所得世帯の出身です, 次のアクティビティへのアクセスを許可する:

  • 1. ワカチナの砂丘で週に2回サンドボードのレッスン.
  • 2. 肉体的および精神的なコンディショニング.
  • 3. 自尊心を高め、改善を促進することを目的としたやる気を起こさせるスピーチ.
  • 4. 価値観の開発とキャリア開発のサポートに焦点を当てたワークショップ.
  • 5. 子供の親しい友人や家族の関与.
  • 6. 砂漠でゴミ拾い.
  • 7. 子供の食事への栄養補助食品.

Sueños de Arenaワカチナの社会プロジェクト. イカ, ペルー.

Discovering new talent

この非営利プロジェクトは以下によって資金提供されています。 ここサンドXスポーツ, a sandboarding and sand skiing school that also caters to adventure tourism in Huacachina.

The school is chaired by Dito Chavez, a four-time sandboarding world champion and the first Peruvian to qualify for a snowboarding world championships. Dito’s vision for the project is to empower young people to gain confidence in themselves and to have a more positive outlook on life.

The Snowboard Club Peru was founded in 2019 by Alejandro Veliz, a graduate of the Official Master’s Degree in Sport Management from Johan Cruyff Institute in Spain, who discovered sandboarding after moving to Peru, which does not have suitable glaciers for snowboarding.

The club is working on developing talents from other clubs, with the goal of having a national team that includes talents from other clubs in a year and a half and they are also collaborating in the organization of the Snowboard World Cup 2023, to be held in Georgia from February 26th to March 6th.

From Snow to Sand

The desert equivalent of the competition, the Sandboard World Cup, is poised to take place some times in 2023 同じように, after a 2-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although alternative competitions have taken place on a smaller scale in Chile and Germany.

The Dragon Cup, held in イキケ, チリ, has become the de facto world championship in the past years, drawing sandboarding enthusiasts from around the world. その間, the SandSpirit competition takes place annually in Hirschau, ドイツ, on the man-made sand mountain of モンテ・カオリノ, bringing the thrills of sand surfing to competitors in Europe.

A location for the Sandboard World Cup 2023 has not been confirmed yet, but Huacachina is one of the most likely candidates.

As the sport gains popularity on a global scale, the Dreams of Sand project is making a real difference in the lives of young people in the Peruvian desert, and the organization’s efforts to promote sandboarding and snowboarding in Peru are helping to create a brighter future for these children.


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