Sport-in-a-Box reaches out in the Province of Ontario
Wednesday, June 28, 2006, Ottawa-The United Nations
Association in Canada (UNA-Canada) is
proud to announce the expansion of our Sport-in-a-Box
programme throughout diversified communities in Ontario thanks
to the Communities in Action Fund (CIAF).
The Communities in Action Fund as sponsored by the Ontario
Ministry of Health Promotion aims to help bring about a physical activity and
community sport culture in Ontario.
Thanks
to this proactive grant Sport-in-a-Box
will target marginalized communities in both urban and rural spheres in
creating a means to promote a life long engagement in sport and physical
activity. Sport-in-a-Box will now
reach 8 regions in Ontario, for a total of 20 unique
regions across Canada.
Sport-in-a-Box will be focusing on new
Canadians, aboriginal communities in Ontario, girls and women in sport,
lower income groups and persons with a disability. Connections from all of the
encompassing targeted regions will be made in addressing the Social
Determinants of Health and how they play an intrinsic role in Sport and
Physical Activity.
With
the CIAF fund Sport-in-a-Box will be
developing a trainer’s manual for teenagers to participate as mentors to the
project demographic of children aged 9 to 12. The two year grant funding will
also culminate in a 2 day symposium of sport, physical activity and their
contributing social factors.
Sport-in-a-Box empowers young Canadians to
think globally, act locally and share their ideas through the universal
language of sport and physical activity. Furthermore, it relies on the power of
sport as a vehicle to promote health, education, development and peace. Sport-in-a-Box asks the question ‘what
would you put in the box?’ in engaging youth to share their perspectives on
sport, physical activity and global education.
UNA-Canada is a national charitable organization
celebrating its landmark 60th anniversary. As a ‘think and do’
organization, UNA-Canada supports a network of fifteen volunteer branches with
a National office in Ottawa and Western professional
office in Vancouver. Our mandate is to engage Canadians in the work of
the UN and the critical global issues which affect us all, through innovative
projects, policy research, and on-going communications with Canadians.
For further information please
feel free to contact:
Jason Oliver
Communications Officer
United Nations Association in Canada
(613)232-5751 ext.237
jason.oliver@unac.org
