Institute of Sports and Recreation INDER

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The Institute of Sports and Recreation – INDER Medellin, it’s a public entity that promotes culture and peaceful coexistence through programs focused on sports, recreation and physical activities, ensuring the good use of leisure time of the citizens. Additionally, we make international events which are executed in safe and adequate spaces.

With the direct participation of citizens and interagency coordination, seeks to achieve healthy lifestyles and social welfare between the community, specially the low income communities and vulnerable and disadvantages groups.

It serves with quality, efficiency and transparency considering the needs, expectations, problems and demands from the different population groups, such as children, teenagers, adults, elderly people and people experiencing disability, addressing them through recreation, sport and physical activity.
The institute frame its quality management in the Sport and Recreation Public Policy principles, and we are committed to offer services oriented to satisfy the needs and expectations of the community, with competent and qualified personal, ensuring a continuous improvement of the processes and a proper administration of the financial, physical , technological and environmental resources.

The contribution of Sports and recreation to global development and human welfare has created an international debate that has generated diverse declarations and agreements between nations in order to promote and implement actions to facilitate access to sport, recreation and physical activity as means to achieve social, cultural and environmental transformations.

The Institute of Sports and Recreation of Medellin was created in response to the increasing necessity of the city to overcome violence and inequality in the 90´s, when Medellin was one of the most violent cities of the world. The INDER was created to offer free programs focused on education trough sport and recreation, which use direct participation of citizens and interagency coordination, in order to promote healthy lifestyles, social welfare, civic culture, peace and development,especially but not exclusively, for the low income communities, vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. 

The INDER is recognized nationally and internationally as referent for the diversity of its programs of sports and recreation to promote healthy life styles, illness prevention, life respect, social interaction, better use of leisure time and values such as nonviolence, civic culture and peaceful coexistence.
In terms of Methodology, our programs are designed and implemented under a tridimensional approach: biologic, physiologic and social. Furthermore the programs are totally free, designed and adapted to serve all kind of populations, without discrimination of race, gender, physical or mental conditions, and/or location.

The Institute is the manager more than 836 public venues of sports and recreation, including high performance complexes; which can be enjoyed by the community and not exclusively by professional athletes, and are used to offer the institute´s programs. These venues and programs are managed through the first and only informational system in Colombia specially designed and adapted to the Sports Sector.

During the past 21 years it has offer, free of charge, programs that focuses in education trough sport and recreation, contributing to the city goals of a transformed society. Some of the programs implemented as today are:

• Public Sport Schools: Is a sports training program that contributes to children and teenagers integral development. For 2013 it reached 38,818 people.

• Elderly program: Physical activity between senior citizens, in 2013 there were 29.884 participants.
• Limitless sport: Promotes physical activity, recreation and sports with people that are experiencing disability, for 2013 attended 8,282 people.
• While we go back home for homeless, imprisoned population and displaced population victim of internal conflict. The services of this program attended with quality and constancy 12,879 people.
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Covering the 22% of the total population, with 514,456 people benefited from our social programs, and more than 1,000 if the enjoyment and use of public venues for sports and recreation is included; one can say that the institute is one of the public institution with the highest coverage in Medellin, what also made the INDER the one of the most esteemed public institutions by the community.