EXERCISE WITH TALES - Providing Disadvantaged Children Between Ages 3 to 6 Years With Basic Movement Education Through Yoga and Tales

The Project aims to provide socio-economically disadvantaged and refugee children between ages 3 to 6 years with basic movement education through yoga and tales in the city of Canakkale and in partner countries. A model will be developed with the idea that every child could engage in sport at an early age regardless of her/his family’s socio-economic condition. This model is believed to foster social inclusion and integration of those children into society through sport. Activities are planned to overcome social inequalities, which children have to face in the field of sport, for helping their emotional, cognitive, social and physical development by a method with which they can also have fun at the same time. Workshops and seminars will be organised for families, teachers, staff of participating organisations for raising awareness on the importance of basic movement education. The project meetings will be announced in different social media channels for increasing the visibility. A pre-test and post-test design will be used to measure the development in children’s motor skills. For the sustainability of the Project, Child yoga trainings will be provided to public kindergartens’ teachers and an “early childhood basic movement education unit” will be established under the Applicant Organisartion, Canakkale Provincial Directorate of Youth and Sports. This unit will offer counselling and training to organisations, kindergarten teachers, parents etc. after the project implementation is finished. The available football stadium within the applicant organisation will be used as a public “YOGA FOR ALL STADIUM” as long as there are no soccer matches. Main activities of the Project: 1. Networking with local and international partners 2. Local and international meetings and seminars 3. Developing a model (a yoga with tales module) for the target population 4. Implementation of the same model in all the participating countries and sharing good practices 5. Raising awareness.