FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thinking, Creating and Moving inside the Box: UNA-Canada celebrates the International Year of Sport and Physical Education.
Ottawa-(February, 8th 2006) Sport-in-a-Box is a highly creative and innovative programme that continues to celebrate the UN designated International Year of Sport and Physical Education (IYSPE). The goals of Sport-in-a-Box are to engage youth to become more active in their every day lives, promote and share the knowledge and values associated with sport, and to mobilize diversified communities across Canada through a process of engagement.
Working with its network of partners, including the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD) and local branches, UNA-Canada will implement Sport-in-a-Box in nine regions across Canada. Through Regional Coordinators, recruited and trained by UNA-Canada, the project will mobilize and engage youth and their communities in British Columbia (Vancouver), Alberta (Calgary), Manitoba (Winnipeg), Ontario (Toronto and Sudbury), Quebec (Montreal and Saguenay), Nunavut (Iqaluit) and Newfoundland (St. John’s). UNA-Canada and its partners will invite and engage former Canadian Olympians, Canadian Elite athletes, coaches, referees and physical education teachers, to broadly promote the Sport-in-a-Box concept. Communities will be encouraged to share their assembled boxes and participate in province-to-province/territorial exchanges of Sport-in-a-Box with their counterpart in other parts of Canada. On the international scale, UNA-Canada through its partners and via its website, will facilitate the process of sharing the Sport-in-a-Box concept as developed in Canada with youth and communities in countries around the world that are interested in this unique Canadian model of marking and celebrating IYSPE.
UNA-Canada is a national charitable organization that is celebrating its landmark 60th anniversary. As a ‘think and do’ organization, UNA-Canada supports a network of fifteen volunteer branches from our headquarters in Ottawa. Ever creative and innovative its mandate is to engage Canadians in the work of the UN and the critical global issues which affect us all.
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
www.unac.org
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