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Players from the national country’s test team, Los Teros are taking rugby values to Uruguayan Prisons as part of a new program – Rugby a la Esperanza. Translated into Rugby Hope the initiative is to encourage prisoners to avoid returning to crime once they are liberated.
The Unión Uruguaya de Rugby (Uruguayan Rugby Union – URU) reached an agreement with the Interior Ministry and the National Institute of Rehabilitation (INR) to work, collectively with inmates using the sport as a vehicle for installing good human values and healthy habits.
Rugby will begin being implented at Unit 4 Santiago Vázquez, on the outskirts of Montevideo and will run throughout all of 2016. Work will involve 80 interns elected by the INR who will train rugby two times a week. After evaluating the success of the activities, the program is to be implemented in other Uruguayan prisons.
Planned and executed by the URU, the project is to involve the participation of test players. Los Teros will take rugby values to Uruguayan Prisons with them personally implementing the spirit of rugby into inmates. The focus is to be on integrity, passion, solidariy, discipline and respect.
Similar programs have been implemented in Argentina, and other countries, with great success.
