The project showed how sports and regular exercise are as much a medicine as chemicals.
The 502 student of the St. Charles Lwanga girls training centre, following their active involvement in the health and wellness program, appeared enthusiastic, dynamic, healthier and interrelated with their peers. They defeated their atheromatic conditions, diabetes, headaches and general body weakness.
The new sport and music equipment, the health talks and the built-in related units have stimulated the students that have sharpened their memory and improved their academic performances. The introduction of regular exercise and establishment of societies among peers (i.e. jogging club) is also perceived in the reduced number of students visiting the infirmary and hence less medication (medicine budget cut down), and students missing classes.
The importance of diet was also discussed and consequently students customised their nutritional intake with a balance intake of fruits, dairy products and meat.
The implementation of the project and its positive response among students crossed over the premises of the school and that lead them to meet neighbouring schools on friendly sport competitions. The project ensured both the health of students and the health of the school.
Extra comments :
The St Charles Lwanga girls training centre is a diocesan structure, whose school is administered by RSCJs since 1984.
People being served
People being served : Children and Young People
Age group : Children 0-17
Number of participants : 251-500
Schedule
Project status : Completed
St Charles Lwanga girls training centre keeps running other programmes
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Society presence : Uganda/Kenya
Focus of the project : People
JPIC Imperative : Transforming and Being Transformed
UN Sustainable Development Goals : 3 Good Health and Well being, 4 Quality Education
