By Noemi Zulauf | Project Assistant
Roundabout is a health promotion and prevention service for children and young people. It was initiated in Switzerland 18 years ago. There are almost 100 Roundabout groups with over 1000 participants. Roundabout is a combination of community and get-together with peers and dancing as a sport.
Many young girls feel fat, insecure and have a low self-esteem. In teenage years this leads to excessive drinking patterns due to group pressure or just to create a better feeling. In Roundabout the girls learn important life principles and develop a healthy self-image through the inputs of the dance teachers and the physical movement.
Roundabout helps to pass the demanding age phase of adolescence well and healthy, in order to lay the foundations for a stable health and lifestyle in the further life. Roundabout helps young people to appreciate their uniqueness by promoting personal and social resources and learning a healthy relationship to alcohol.
The approximately 100 groups have different performances and so the teens spend their free time in a positive environment.
With your donation, the street dance groups can be further implemented and children can be prevented from suffering from alcoholism. Thank you very much
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