Body Culture of Movement and health promotion at school

extension designed for the inclusion and health of people with visual impairment

Abstract

This text, written through an autobiographical narrative and institutional documents, aims to describe an experience report, from a qualitative perspective, regarding the extension project Body Culture of Movement and Health Promo¬tion at School. To this end, this study intends to discuss the various activities and actions promoted, in the year 2023, by the aforementioned project, which was aimed at the Benjamin Constant Institute (IBC) community and, mainly, at people with visual impairments and their families. The initiative, linked to and developed at IBC, promoted partnerships and activities with more than 200 participants. The swimming school and training, the adapted chess school, the bodybuilding and water aerobics classes, in addition to the art, creation and care workshop and the albinism course in partnership with UFRJ – are some examples of actions promoted by the project. It is hoped that the activities and experiences presented in this study can resonate in other institutional routines, contributing to the construction of new accessible, democratic and inclusive proposals.