Healthy Caribbean Coalition - World Day for Physical Activity around April 6th 2010 (April 3rd to 11th)
Active Cities, Healthy Life
World Day For Physical Activity: It is Time to Organize !
The Agita Mundo Network is please to announce the celebration of the World Day for Physical Activity around April 6th (April 3rd to 11th). The central topic for discussions in this year is "Active Cities, Healthy Lifes", to take the same spirit of the World Health Day 2010: "1000 Cities, 1000 Lifes".
In that day we may synchronize our indignation in regards to sedentarism, trying to get the largest social mobilization. We may obtained it through a media contact, a seminar, a forum, organizing a walking parade or just taking-off for a while the lifts of your building. The use of your personal network is crucial in reaching the thinking-makers and policy-makers. We are sending in annex the poster of event for your dissemination.
1) What kind of event you can do?
You can organize:
Walking : with your neighborhood, employees, students, partners or other populations. You can establish ways from your institution to a park, monuments or important points at your city or inside your institution.
Games: you can organize games encouraging or making physical activity, as sports or plays with when the people loose or win the rounds they pay making abdominal, jumping, running or walking for a while.
Disseminate the message of the importance of physical activity: You can look for the marketing department of your institution and ask to put the message of the physical activity at the payment paper, around the building to people know the recommendation of physical activity.
Dog Walking: you can organize a walking with dog, where everyone whose has a dog can participate. This way you make the dog and the owner active!
Stairs Day : you can establish a day when the elevators for the 3 first floors of your institution will be turned off to stimulate the people to use the stairs. Remember only to leave one elevator to those ones whose
can't rise a stair.
Dance: you can organize events with dance competitions to move your population.
Media Contact; Seminar, Workshop, Forum: these events permit to disseminate the concepts of Active Living, the Recommendation for Physical Activity, the central topic of World Day for Physical Activity: Active Cities , Healthy Life!
2) What do I have to do to join the people?
You can join people with callings at the radio, television, with folders, websites, twitters, and tracks. Ask for your partners to help you spread the calling for the event in their networks.
3) If I need sources, how do I get them?
Contact companies which are interested in disseminate their brands to support your event with t-shirts, hats, squeezes or promoting material inserting their brands with the message of your event and messages encouraging the people to practice physical activity.
Remind to register your event in our website:
www.agitamundo.org
Victor Matsudo