Egészségkör
Start date: Aug 1, 2016,
End date: Oct 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Raising awareness of healthy life style and its importance is vital among the youngsters. Popular fast food restaurant, life style that lacks physical activity, addiction disorders, smoking, excessive usage of alcohol and various stimulating substances or drugs are important and dangerous factors the organizations, institutions have to deal with. Since they work with youngsters, they have to fight against these harmful and unhealthy habits. It is more important among groups of disadvantaged and multiple disadvantaged youngsters, who are more likely to be vulnerable to these factors. In their cases, unfavourable life circumstances are among the reasons that they lack the awareness of healthy life style, but we can mention lack of positive parental patterns (many parents also use or consume drugs, are alcoholic or struggle with various addiction disorders). Although school curriculums partly cover the topic of unhealthy lifestyle prevention, their effectiveness is highly questioned. Hence, prevention, presentation of harmful effects and positive patterns are important aspects of our program, in which we want to implement a 10-day-long international exchange in the topic of health. On the youth exchange, there are 6 participating youngsters and their group leaders from each 4 country (Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia). During the exchange, we form and create youngsters’ attitude towards health, with the help of professionals. We present them alternative methods that are cheap or do not require additional cost. Furthermore, we put great stress on prevention, trying to avoid the emergence of addiction disorders. Our aim is to transfer knowledge to the youngsters, who, with this new knowledge, can influence their life style in a positive way on the long run. Moreover, they will be able to show positive patterns to their environment. In this way we can affect their attitude on the long run, so they will be more aware of their healthy lifestyle. The exchange is implemented in Tiszaladány, with the cooperation of four participating organizations, in a 10-day-long period. As far as the methods are concerned, we use non-formal teaching methods, debates, workshops, physical activities, situational tasks, and film club.