Nordend Boxing Club
The boxing project BC-Nordend in Offenbach was founded in 2003 in the Nordend youth center and has developed into a nationally recognized violence prevention and integration project.
The 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" club competition in bronze 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.
Boxclub Nordend e.V. has now received more than 20 awards from institutions throughout Germany. 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.