Campaign "To be Healthy and Fit is Cool" is taking place in Cherkasy Region
Campaign "To be Healthy and Fit is Cool" is taking place in Cherkasy region. (As reported, Mykola Tomenko´s Fund "Ridna Krayina" has embarked on this project in Drabiv and Zolotonosha districts). According to Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Mykola Tomenko, the primary goal of this campaign is to promote physical culture, sports, and active lifestyle among the youth.
To this end, Mykola Tomenko´s Fund promotes organization of sports competitions and physical culture events by presenting prizes and valuable gifts to the pupils who lead a healthy lifestyle.
On Sunday, 17 July, M.Tomenko together with Volodymyr Hres, deputy of Cherkasy regional council, took part in the sports competition in the village of Staryi Kavrai of Chornobayi district, presenting sports equipment to the school and sports uniform to the volleyball team.
The Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is planning to visit most villages of Drabiv, Zolotonosha, and Chornobayi districts. He called for restoring the institute of sports instructors.
M.Tomenko wants to convince the government to allocate budget funds to pay for the work of physical culture and sports instructors in the rural areas. "It is important that apart from the physical trainer engaged in school work, there should be an organizer who could initiate out-of-school physical culture and sports events for the pupils and locals," he stressed.