The "Fit Kids with Judo" ERASMUS+ ESC30 project, led by Hasan Basri Taşkın, a graduate student of the Department of Movement and Training Sciences at the Institute of Health Sciences, was entitled to receive a grant from the National Agency.
In the Country-Centered Solidarity Projects (ESC30) project, which was prepared with the aim of creating positive change with the local partners of the organizer on the basis of domestic solidarity activities, our university student Hasan Basri Taşkın aims to instill sports habits in obese children with the "Fit Kids with Judo" project.
In the project carried out with local partners, young volunteers gain experience in a social responsibility project by working with obese children and develop their competencies such as taking responsibility, addressing current social problems, strengthening solidarity and active citizenship in society, reducing obesity, which is the main cause of many diseases, at the local level and healthy nutrition, sports. It aims to gain the habit of an active life.
Within the scope of the project, in addition to judo training for obese children between the ages of 9-11, it is aimed for the children to acquire healthy eating habits under the supervision of a dietitian and to continue their lives as individuals who have acquired both sports habits and the characteristics such as self-confidence, courage and respect that sports give to a person.
The project is led by Hasan Basri Taşkın and Kastamonu University Faculty Member Assoc.Prof.Dr.Bayram Ceylan is the project coach. In addition, volunteer students studying at the Faculty of Sports Sciences will also carry out activities within the scope of the project.
