Location and general information
Access to Sport - 
Gender Equality - 
Healthy lifestyle - 
Personal developmentContext
Sport provides children with important life skills, promotes personal growth, social integration and mental well-being, and can help to prevent lifestyle diseases. Children in orphanages and from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in Czechia and Slovakia do not have the same access to sport as others.
Project goals
Prepare children for adulthood by helping them transition into independent and healthy lives:
- Ensuring that children achieve better physical fitness through regular participation in sport, which contributes to overall health
- Using sport to help prevent lifestyle diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular conditions, which are increasingly common among children in modern society
- Encouraging children to adopt a healthy and active lifestyle, which will benefit them not only during their childhood but also into adulthood
- Helping children build confidence by participating and succeeding in sport
- Teaching children the importance of collaboration and cooperation in sport and in life
- Using sport as a tool to enhance children’s cognitive abilities and emotional health
Project content
Gymnathlon Foundation runs weekly courses in orphanages and nearby facilities that focus on overall physical development and introduce children to various sports, such as gymnastics, athletics, volleyball, basketball, tennis and parkour. The programme is designed to be fun and engaging to ensure maximum participation and long-term impact.
Special sports days are held directly at orphanages to further engage the children, the coaches receive continuous training to improve their skills, ensuring high-quality instruction, and the older children are given the opportunity to become assistant coaches, which not only builds their skills and experience but also provides income opportunities.
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