ABOUT US

We are a non-profit organization, created in 2016, that promotes the development of youngsters through sports programs.
Our head office is located in the City of Buenos Aires and we develop activities
throughout the Argentine Republic.
Our training programs include initiation into sports, competition, high athletic performance, and obtaining a university scholarship in the USA.
¿Why Rumi?
RUMI comes from the term “roomie” which means roommate and is the person with whom you share living quarters even though they are not related to each other.
In sports it is common to use the word “roomie”, which Latinos use as “rumi”, when referring to that person who accompanies you on sports trips and lodging. It is that friend who becomes your “roomie”.
“We adopt that name because we want to be that companion, that friend who is close, the one who accompanies you and supports you on your way.”
Roberto Braccini, President of the RUMI Foundation

MISSION

Promote changes in children and youths in order to improve their living standards by promoting educational programs that provide them with tools to develop in sports and in life to become positive role models.

VISION

Our vision is to transform ourselves into an institution recognized nationally and internationally, for its impact on the training of children and young people who can achieve a positive impact on the environment where they live, with social commitment, in all areas of daily life. 

VALUES

Freedom, commitment, respect, honesty, sincerity, and solidarity. We understand that every human being has the ability to be free, as long as they have the opportunity to have a healthy education, which respects the stages of their development as such.  

Omar Vizquel, our ambassador

RUMI’s successes became known internationally by adding the baseball legend, Omar Vizquel, as the foundation’s ambassador..
The former Major League Baseball player was made official as RUMI Ambassador in 2018. Omar Vizquel, who obtained 11 Gold Glove Awards throughout his Major League career, is the official international spokesperson for our organization. 
In January 2019, Vizquel traveled to Argentina for the first time and held baseball clinics and workshops for the boys of RUMI and the different Clubs of the City of Buenos Aires. In addition, to a full room at the ND Ateneo theater, he gave a conference to benefit the foundation, where he spoke about “The mental factor in the construction of success.”
Omar is a great person and with a great heart. We are pleased to hear that he will soon be inducted into the MLB Baseball Hall of Fame. 

WHAT WE DO

BASEBALL IN SCHOOLS

The program, which began in 2017, was designed as an initiation to the baseball and targets boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 13, from public primary schools who in 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grades.
The particularity of the model designed by RUMI is the replacement of physical education classes with baseball clinics within the school and during school hours. Each school applies its weekly physical education calendar to our discipline, exclusively, with the assistance of our professionals for a full month, with all the sports equipment necessary for their practice.

To date, 8,800 kids have benefited in 38 primary schools in Buenos Aires and San Luis.

HIGH PERFORMANCE

In order to train the kids through a 360 ° vision, the “RUMI Prospects” program was created, and it is the first high-performance baseball program in Argentina.
The novelty of the program is that it is based on the support of a multidisciplinary team that accompanies the evolution and development of the young athlete in the technical, physical, medical, nutritional, sports psychological, and English language aspects.
We have a staff of first-rate Coaches, in each of the areas, who will accompany their growth in order to obtain a university scholarship in the United States.

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SCHOLARSHIPS

The purpose of the program is to prepare youngsters, 14 years of age and older, to be eligible for an athletic college scholarship in the United States.
To achieve this goal, RUMI established an alliance with The Prospect Farm, a leader in counseling foreign students that are seeking opportunities for scholarships at universities in the United States.

 

DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE

As a result of the results obtained through the joint work with the Liga Puntana de Beisbol y Softbol (Puntana Baseball and Softball League), the Government of San Luis, through the Programa Deportes (Sports Program), was eager to move forward with an ambitious project designed to develop baseball in the province, in tune with our goals of using sport as a tool for social inclusion.
The project consists of the construction of three baseball fields, locker rooms, an indoor multi-space area, club house, and swimming pool overlooking the beautiful Sierras de San Luis (the San Luis hillside).
The site, designed by the architect Marcos Asa, will begin construction in March 2021.

Photo + website www.hachealcubo.com.ar 

Sport is, without a doubt, a fundamental tool for the development of a society. Its practice allows us to acquire values, discipline, and personal development, which improves individual and social relationships. In particular, our discipline is baseball; a team sport that requires the development of various physical skills such as body and eye coordination, quick reactions, hitting, speed, running, sliding, and great concentration in order to solve game situations.

SUPPORT US

Your support and collaboration is important to us!  

With your contribution we can provide clothing, footwear, gloves, balls, batting nets, bats, helmets, and snacks.
Any amount, no matter how small, makes a difference! Join and be part of #TeamRumi 

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CONTACT US

Avenida de Mayo 981, piso 1° OF 107, (1084)
Ciudad de Buenos Aires, República Argentina
Phone: +54 911 63786817
E-mail: info@rumi.ar 
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