Nordend Boxing Club
The BC-Nordend boxing project in Offenbach was founded in 2003 in the Nordend youth center and has developed into a nationally recognized violence prevention and integration project. Its many awards include the "Oddset Future Prize of Hessian Sport", the "National Promotion Prize 2006 of the Hamburg-Mannheimer Foundation Youth and Future", the "Stars of Sport" bronze club competition and the "Schlappekicker" prize from the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper in 2007. The advisory board of the Berlin "Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance" also classified the project as exemplary and awarded it a prize.
Institutions from all over Germany have now presented them with over 20 awards. In 2003, social worker Wolfgang Malik and licensed boxing trainer Bernd Hackfort founded the boxing project at the Nordend Youth Center in Johannes-Morhart-Straße. They were looking for ways to teach young people respect, discipline, punctuality and responsibility. With boxing. During training, Hackfort began to show the youngsters their limits. The two worked with clear rules right from the start: Anyone who gets into a fight outside of training is kicked out. Everyone treats everyone with courtesy and respect. The two also checked the young boxers' school reports. Anyone who did worse than three in a subject was given extra tuition. This is still the case today. The boxing club is a member of the Hessian Amateur Boxing Association and also offers training for amateur boxers who come to the hall at the harbor from all over the Rhine-Main region.