Health Impact Subaward Grant

About 2.0 percent of the country’s population of about 170 million is intellectually disabled, which means there are about 3.4 million people with intellectual disabilities in the country. Through the Healthy Athletes Program, Special Olympics Bangladesh is conducting health screening and awareness raising activities for special athletes through the Healthy Athlete Screening Event. There was no provision for follow-up services for referral athletes after the health examination. With support and guidance from Special Olympics International, awareness has been created and Special Olympics Bangladesh is moving forward to build a healthy community model. Through this program, Special Olympics Bangladesh is looking for more partners to provide long-term health care and follow-up services and advance the healthy community.

By expanding this Healthy Community Model to different districts of Bangladesh, SOBD changes the curriculum, trains health care professionals, influences various policies, builds public opinion for integrated health programs, builds partnerships for follow-up treatment, and raises awareness through the Special Olympics movement. The Special Olympics movement will be strengthened to build partnerships to provide follow-up services and improve the quality of healthcare for the intellectually disabled population.

By expanding this Healthy Community Model to different districts of Bangladesh, SOBD changes the curriculum, trains health care professionals, influences various policies, builds public opinion for integrated health programs, builds partnerships for follow-up treatment, and raises awareness through the Special Olympics movement. 

. The Special Olympics movement will be strengthened to build partnerships to provide follow-up services and improve the quality of healthcare for the intellectually disabled population.

Special Olympics International has offered Health Impact Subaward Grant to SOBD for the expansion of Healthy Community activity in Bangladesh. However, in order to increase its activities, Young Athletes Program will be organized in all the districts of Bangladesh except 03 districts of Chittagong Hill Tracts. With the aim of creating a healthy community, under this project, from July 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024, Special Olympics Bangladesh will conduct the following activities:

 

  1. Improve the fitness of 300 new athletes through fitness programming.
  2. Organize 03 seminars-workshops to raise awareness on the health issues of the athletes among 120 coaches, trainers, teachers, volunteers, and community leaders.
  3. Organize training Programs for 100 Health professionals, Community Health Workers and students of the health sector.
  4. Organize 03 healthcare-related advocacy programs and raise the awareness of 120 family members and leaders.
  5. Organize a Fitness Captain Training Program for at least 05 Athlete Leaders.
  6. Provide training in fitness programming to 130 young athlete trainers/coaches.
  7. Connecting and training of 5,000 new young athletes throughout Bangladesh.
  8. Providing training to 20 health messengers.