Many children are living in poverty, not just in developing countries, but in Germany too. This poverty is revealed through things like material limitations or a lack of a high fibre diet rich in vitamins, but also by lack of exercise.
Only around 30 percent of children exercise for at least one hour a day and with this, achieve the activity levels recommended by the World Health Organisation. The percentage of children and young people who do not do enough exercise is growing steadily. At the same time, exercise in everyday life is being missed out on. Working parents are getting round to actively playing with their children and doing sport less and less. And schools and kindergartens only have some two hours of sport a week on their timetables.
For this reason, children are missing out on very basic building blocks in their physical and mental development: the acquisition of important motor abilities, the formation of cognitive fitness and not least the involvement with sporting values like fairness, team spirit and integration.
The Sky Foundation has set itself the goal of promoting exercise and health in children. We support targeted projects in kindergartens, schools, associations or other recreational centres which motivate children and young people for sport and exercise. We want to make children self-confident and “fit” for social cooperation by their acquisition of motor abilities and by teaching them sporting values.
