“Impactando Vidas” (impacting lives) social program promotes table tennis in Villa María del Triunfo schools

• The program seeks to promote the integral development of students in Peru through the practice of this sport as an educational and social transformation tool.
• The partnership between the Monica Liyau Association and UNACEM seeks to benefit more than 1 800 students and 15 teachers in sports education.

Lima, May 2022.- As children return to face-to-face education, the Monica Liyau Association in alliance with UNACEM, inaugurated the Social Table Tennis Program “Impacting Lives” at Coronel Juan Valer Sandoval school in the district of Villa Maria del Triunfo.

The program will support 3 schools in Villa María del Triunfo and benefit more than 1 800 students and 15 physical education teachers, providing them with training for physical education teachers, resources and sports techniques, tables and other didactic and sports equipment for the teaching and practice of this sport, as well as for teaching soft skills and nutrition that will contribute to the project’s sustainability.

It is important to emphasize that this project and table tennis promote the importance of sports for physical, mental and socio-emotional health in the education community, and also strengthen fulfillment of the rights of Peruvian children and adolescents

It is worth noting that in 2016 Monica Liyau, Peru’s greatest table tennis player founded the Association that bears her name and initiated the “Impacting Lives” program as a pioneering and innovative proposal for integral development in Peruvian schools through the sport, as an tool for educational and social transformation.

The program is implemented in agreement with the Peruvian Sports Institute, to promote table tennis and its multiple benefits as a sustainable recovery path for children and adolescents. Its practice in open spaces, with distancing and without contact, has allowed children and young people to have a space for physical, mental and emotional health recreation during the pandemic and to help to address Peru’s educational challenges.