Ivan Morse runs Re-Creation Health Club in Sunbury Victoria. The club provides exercise and wellbeing programs for adults as well as healthy activities like swimming classes for kids.
Ivan saw the Gutsy Challenge TV ad and thought the getting involved would be just the ticket for his club members. Ivan enrolled the swim school in the Gutsy Challenge and promoted the initiative to the swim school students. He set up a promotional table at the school, with flyers and posters about the Challenge.
Throughout the swim school’s Gutsy Challenge week the students participated in lots of activities to raise awareness about healthy eating.
Some of the activities included:
- Bringing in a fruit or vegetable carving
- Asking parents and kids to take a food quiz
- Growing edible plants like carrot tops, alfalfa and bean sprouts
- Fun swimming pool games
- Trying out cool ways to prepare healthy food like fruit faces and delicious fruit kebabs.
Re-Creation Health club members have loved being part of the Gutsy Challenge. Parents have supported the initiative as a way to help their children learn about making healthy eating choices, and kids have loved making otherwise boring fruit and vegies fun.
The club’s goal is to raise $1000 for the GI CANCER Institute through sponsors, competitions and donations from the Sunbury community. Sunbury has really gotten behind Ivan and the Gutsy Challenge with a story in the local newspaper and support from local businesses.
The GI CANCER Institute gives Ivan and Sunbury a big thumbs up for their awesome ideas and for making a difference to their health and the lives of people with gastro-intestinal cancers.
