Global Children's Challenge - Invitation to Participate

The Global Children's Challenge^™ is a health initiative designed to get children from all over the world active and instill in them the habit and importance of daily exercise for the rest of their lives. In March 2010, the initiative was launched by our Chairman, Herb Elliott, and Ambassador, Catherine Freeman. 

Click here to download a flyer with more information.

Click here to download a Teacher's Guide for the Global Children's Challenge (3.8Mb pdf file).

Facilitated by teachers within classrooms, the Global Children's Challenge^™ empowers children (and their teachers) to change their relationship with exercise, their bodies and the environment. The Children's Challenge will engage school children at a classroom level, measure step counts from a pedometer and interact with a web based "virtual" walk around the globe.

Driven by teachers, the event will have more of a factual discovery focus, allowing kids to learn about other countries, towns, cities, and day-to-day lives of similar aged children in different cultures. The website features engaging content and reference material appealing directly to this age group's popular culture, and a tone of language that is both fun and appropriate.

Our goal is for The Global Children's Challenge™ to play a critical role in our children's future by encouraging healthy active habits, and presenting exercise as fun, stimulating and worthwhile. The Global Children’s Challenge™ is funded by businesses who take part in the Global Corporate Challenge® (GCC). The GCC is a corporate health and wellbeing program which is now in its 7^th year and has nearly 100,000 participants worldwide currently participating.

In 2010, for every employee a company enrolled in the GCC, the GCC is funding a child to take part in the Global Children’s Challenge. This free initiative is aimed at school children in Grades 4, 5 and 6, it starts September 29^th and runs for 50 days. 

While places are limited, we still have 38,000 places to fill in Australia. Please have a look at our websites for further information. 

The Global Children’s Challenge website is www.gccjunior.org

The Global Corporate Challenge website is www.gettheworldmoving.com