City Orienteering

Young families participated in the
Unusual competition.

On October 25, in one of the forest park areas of the North-West District, a city orienteering tournament for young people "In pursuit of happiness" was held. The organizer of the project was Bolotova Alina Vadimovna - an individual entrepreneur. The program was supported by the Department of Family and Youth Policy in Moscow.

An unusual sport - urban orientation - became popular only at the beginning of the XXI century. It is remarkable that it requires participants to exert both intellectual and physical strength. The goal of urban orientation is to search for certain places, objects, solve intricate puzzles, in a word, the artificially created by the organizers of trials in the open air.

Individual entrepreneur Alina Valadovna Balashova decided to organize a city orienteering tournament with the important goal of attracting Moscow youth to active leisure and rallying young families. "In pursuit of happiness" - with this motto, ninety-six young Moscow families started their assignments.

The young people faced a non-trivial task: as quickly as possible to bypass several control points located in the forest, in order to collect
Parts valuable statement about the family of the French writer Emile Zola - "Pledge
Family happiness in kindness, frankness, responsiveness ". Parts of the phrase organizers of the tournament are located in the most unpredictable places: in the roots of a fallen tree, at the confluence of ravines, on the shore of a pond. Participants of the match were assisted by special maps, on which all the checkpoints of the route were marked.

The project "In pursuit of happiness" was aimed at solving a whole range of fascinating tasks, such as: attracting young people to fascinating and useful activities, popularizing active recreation and healthy lifestyles, strengthening families through joint leisure, increasing the prestige of family and family values.

Winners of the city orienteering tournament "In pursuit of happiness"
Received valuable prizes from the organizer of the competition.