Our Health in Our Hands

On 28 October 2024, within the framework of the SDG-3 programme, teachers of the Department of Language and General Education Training of Foreigners of the Faculty of Pre-University Education of Al-Farabi KazNU Aitpayeva A.S. and Sadenova A.E. held an event ‘Our Health in Our Hands’. The event was attended by foreign students of group 6.   Together with the students the teachers identified several important reasons why people get sick, lose health and strength for a fruitful life: sedentary lifestyle - obesity, fascination with gadgets - weakening of eyesight, eating fast food - gastrointestinal diseases, little time in the fresh air, in the sun - rachitis, smoking - lung diseases, etc. The question ‘How to keep healthy?’ elicited an active response from the students. Students offered their options to solve these problems: to do gymnastics, to refuse to use phones while in the educational building, to walk more in parks. The suggestion of the curator Aitpayeva A.S. to do 2-minute exercise before each lesson as the first step to health was supported by all students. As experience shows, such discussions of topical issues help everyone to come to the right decision and choose the direction of their life path.