In March, safefood and Special Olympics Ireland (SOI) announced a new partnership called Health@Play that brings health education through sport to children with intellectual disabilities aged 4-15 years within their community clubs and schools. Hayley Kavanagh, Special Olympics Ireland, said: “By introducing children to healthy habits through a wide variety of play activities in a familiar, supportive and fun environment, everyone has the opportunity to succeed.”
Speaking about the partnership, Fiona Gilligan, Director of Communications at safefood said: “We are very proud of this new partnership between safefood and Special Olympics Ireland. The young athletes and their health coordinators have been wonderfully engaged in the development of the resource and we look forward to the roll out across the island of Ireland. We will continue to explore fun and engaging ways to educate children on the importance of eating healthily and how that connects with being active. Nurturing our children to develop these positive habits from an early age can give them the building blocks towards a healthy life.”
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