Sport together, active forever (STAF)

Nowadays the sedentary, obesity, diabetes and other health disorders have affected more and more persons. At the same time, the people are very busy with their jobs and they spend their spare time in an inactive way. More, challenged persons are excluded and have less access to social life together with the non-disabled people.
Therefore, the practicing of the physical exercises and sport activities together have become a priority at the level of European Union which has mentioned that in its paper.
The project has in view to inform the challenge (mental disabilities) and non-challenge persons (trainers, parents, social assistant, volunteers, a.o.) about the bocce game and rules and give to them to practice together. All of these will be done so that disabled and non-disabled persons to spend in their free time in a pleasant manner with direct effects on their life and health. In these conditions, the project offers the opportunity of the mental disabled persons and their volunteers to promote equal and social inclusion, to respect the rights of all the people and to allow them to develop their personal and professional competences. Besides, the project tries to change mentalities about a disadvantaged group of the persons and to underline and promote their abilities not their disabilities.

Objectives
- To bring together trainers, parents, social assistant, volunteers, administrative staff, a.o., involved in the different activities addresses the disabled persons to share their knowledge, skills and competences and learn other new ones;
- To develop new skills and competences about a sport discipline (games and rules) both disabled persons and non-disabled persons (trainers, parents, social assistant, volunteers, administrative staff, a.o.) too;
- To encourage the volunteers to be involved in activities for and with challenged people and promote equal opportunities for all;
- To permit the trainers and volunteers to increase their competences in learning the possibilities of the mental disabled persons, the manner of the teaching of a sport discipline and the advantages of equal and social inclusion for the challenged persons, for their health and lives;
- To determine the mental disabled persons to attend physical exercises and sport activities because they have a positive impact on their health condition and lives and promote beneficial effects of the physical exercises and sport activity for the disadvantage category of the persons (mental disability) at the local, national and international level;
- To allow same institution from the disadvantaged, border and different part of Europe to attend a European partnerships.

Activities
3 seminars, trainings for the mental disabled persons (40) at the local level, evaluation, 2 local competitions, 1 international competition, a booklet