Sport-Health-Achievements

«SPORT-HEALTH-ACHIEVEMENTS»

Project Purpose:
1. To create conditions for pupils of child welfare social institutions in Kazakhstan to do exercises and to go in for sports, and to develop Olympic and national sports as well as peoples’ games;
2. To form a healthy life and principles of an active longevity among pupils;
3. To enhance occupation of children and the youngsters by providing sports leisure activities for the purpose of offence prevention.

Scenario of the Project Implementation:
1. To build sports-grounds and tot-lot areas equipped on an up-to-date basis at child welfare social institutions;
2. To involve pupils in systematic exercises and sports;
3. To activate interaction between the physical education & sports associations (including federations) and sports clubs and the pupils of child welfare social institutions.

Problem Definition:
Currently Kazakhstan has received increasing attention to the development of sports both generally around the country and in the educational system. However only 56.5 % of general education institutions of the Republic have standard sports halls and 14.9 % of once have sports halls duly adapted. A scope of exercises done at secondary education institutions is 3 - 4 times less than the applicable standards require. To reach a scheduled and scientifically proven level of physical activity, one should increase the number of exercises and provide a training process with sports equipment. 
Unfortunately, out-of-class health & fitness and sports & mass activities during extracurricular hours have failed to develop. The number of children and the youngsters, who are subject to different cold-related and chronic diseases is still increasing owing to a low physical activity. 
The importance of sport for pupils of child welfare social institutions is particularly difficult to overestimate. Indeed, often such children have nothing to occupy their leisure with. As a result, there is a dawdle, which leads to disappointment, hooliganism and even immorality. To engage children especially upperclassmen in useful things after studies is becoming an important task. And sport promotes in the solution of many problems. 

Primary Tasks:

1. Physical education of preschool and primary school-aged children

Task Definition:
The basic vital motor skills develop at the tender age of children, a child learns to properly walk, sit, stand, do the simplest exercises, orientate itself in space, take physical conditioning procedures, and gets into the habit of everyday physical exercises and sports activities, which are the basis of a healthy life. Arrangements for physical education of children require exercises with them by way of games, as a rule, in the open air, and a constant updating of the content thereof. Exercises are to be based on a various physical training, which increase functional capabilities of children and develop all physical functions of the human body. The leading scientists in pediatry and physical training & sport recommend physical activity for not less than 10 – 12 hours per week for the said age group. 

The primary directions in the solution of the task are as follows: 
- to set up tot-lot areas “Ksil” at child welfare social institutions with more than 15 preschool and primary school-aged children to do exercises outdoors (Organization in Charge – Saby Charitable Foundation);
- to develop and introduce training and game programs for physical education of preschool and primary school-aged children at institutions (to be performed by the administration of orphanages and boarding schools); 

2. Physical education of senior school-aged children 

Task Definition:
Physical education is to promote development and improvement of children’s basic motion functions, their physical development and health, and education of a conscious need in a healthy life. 
Physical education of senior school-aged children is to develop their high need in systematic physical exercises and sports activities. It necessary to introduce extracurricular exercises subject to the interests of children in different sports and systems of exercises. During classes, one should teach to rationally use factors of nature, to combine work with rest, to give a grounding of physical training, self-massage and safety rules, combination of volumes and intensity of exercise loads, a proper performance of exercises and succession thereof, and to give necessary theoretic knowledge about the physiological make-up of the body, and the hygiene of exercises. A recommended scope of active exercises and sports activities for children of this age category is not less than 8 - 10 hours a week. 

The primary directions in the solution of the task are as follows: 
- to build, at child care social institutions, up-to-date sports grounds equipped, on a multi-purpose basis, to go in for different sports (in particular, five-a-side, voleyball, basketball, handball, and court tennis) (Organization in Charge – Saby Charitable Foundation);
- to improve out-of-school forms of arrangement for physical training for a further changeover from the classes in physical education to the trainings as per particular sports subject to the interests of pupils and the development of their physiological make-up (Organizer – Saby Charitable Foundation) (to be performed by the administration of orphanages and boarding-schools);
- to ensure that physical exercises and sports activities are popularized by involving famous sportsmen, champions, Merited Sports Masters and leading coaches by pupils (Organization in Charge – Saby Charitable Foundation);
- to select promising children to get a further sports education to replenish national teams as per particular sports (Organization in Charge – Saby Charitable Foundation).

Project Financing:
The project will be financed by voluntary contributions of benefactors through the Non- Commercial Organization “Saby Charitable Foundation”.

Expectations:
1. Establishment of healthy life principles among the children and the youth of child care social institutions.
2. Increase in the number of pupils, who actually engage in exercises and sports activities and, as a result, decrease in the morbidity rate.
3. Decrease in the number of offences among the the younger generation.
4. Increase in the promising sports reserve of candidates to the R.K. national teams from among the pupils of child care social institutions.

Milestones:
The project has been operating since 2002; 
49 sports facilities were built, repaired and equipped in 30 institutions in 14 regions of Kazakhstan (Almaty, Taldykorgan, Semey, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Temirtau, Kyzylorda, Petropavlovsk, Aktobe, Atyrau, Alga, Kaskelen, settlement ofBalpyk Bi in Almaty region, village of Makhambet in Atyrau region, Taraz), of which:
- multifunctional sports grounds – 23;
- sports halls – 4;
- playgrounds – 20;
- fitness center - 2.