PRESS RELEASEThe Roquette Foundation for Health and the Decathlon Foundation
Present the Winners of Their Call for Projects"Sport and Nutrition for Good Health!"
La Madeleine (France), 11 July, 2024 - The Roquette Foundation for Health and the Decathlon
Foundation are partnering to promote access to healthy food and adapted physical activity for peoplein vulnerable situations. In March of this year, the two entities launched a joint call for projects aimed
at supporting actions in favor of sports and nutrition in France, Brazil, and India. With a jury for eachcountry, five associations were selected, all of which had projects that met the criteria of the call for
projects: the Marca institution in Brazil, the Shreeja association in India, the Apprentis d'Auteuil,Comme Les Autres, and Enfance, Adolescence et Diabète associations in France.
These projects will be supported by the two Foundations for a total of more than €160,000.
Sustainable projects in favor of "eat well, move more”
Nearly 100 applications were received following the launch of the call for projects in March 2024.
Among them, five projects were selected for their ability to offer people in vulnerable situations (suchas precariousness, disability, illness, and people from disadvantaged neighborhoods) access to physicaland sports activities, as well as healthy food in the long term.
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The Playing & Nourishing project of the Marca Institution promotes food education through aschool garden and fun activities, including access to sports for out-of-school children in thesurroundings of Salvador, Brazil.
The project proposed by the association Shreeja India, at the heart of the "Football and Beyond"program, integrates football and nutrition training, awareness, and support for mental health toempower disadvantaged girls living in rural areas in West Bengal, India.
The Lubinus project, led by the Apprentis d'Auteuil, is implemented on the Saint-Lubin campus,
a rural area in Tarn et Garonne (France), which welcomes 140 young people and adults each year
for training in metal and building trades or for an insertion program. Sports and nutrition
workshops are set up there every week.
The association Comme Les Autres offers comprehensive social support, constantly energizedby sports and extreme sensations, to enable a dynamic rebound towards a fulfilling social andprofessional life for people who have a motor disability following an accident. The Sport-Healthapproach will be implemented on all regional sites.
The project implemented by the association EAD (Childhood, Adolescence & Diabetes) will beestablished in the first child diabetes house located in Toulouse, France, which is scheduled toopen its doors in September 2024. The project will organize events and programs focused on
nutrition, physical activity, and type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents. The aim is to graduallyequip them with the necessary knowledge for proper diabetes management and acceptance ofthe disease.

The budget of more than €160,000 allocated to these five projects by the two foundations will be
dedicated to the construction or renovation of sports facilities, personnel costs related to sports(sports educator for the implementation of the program's roadmap), the purchase of food, andpersonnel costs related to healthier eating (dietician, nutritionist).

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This initiative is part of Decathlon and Roquette's desire to commit as major players in the field ofsports health and nutrition. It is also an integral part of Roquette's “life+nature” program and one ofits engagement platforms “CARE for people,” which places humans at the heart of the company'scommitments and works for well-being, inclusion, and involvement with local communities.
Furthermore, convinced that sports can truly change lives, this call for projects is perfectly aligned with
Decathlon's sense of purpose "Move people through the wonders of Sport."
According to Anne Lambin, Head of the Roquette Foundation, "This call for projects is a real humanadventure: we have discovered projects from all horizons, which show the importance of combining
sports or adapted activities and balanced nutrition to preserve our health. It is also an opportunity forour two foundations and companies to work together, driven by our common values. This call for
projects will contribute to making nutrition and sports the essential duo for better health!"
For Marie Pinel, Head of the Decathlon Foundation in France, "This collaboration with the Roquette
Foundation was obvious. Combining our two areas of expertise, nutrition, and physical activity, twoessential pillars of health, in service of associations committed to the well-being of their beneficiaries:
a real opportunity! We received a welcome from the structures that met our expectations and aredelighted and touched!"

About the Roquette Foundation for HealthCreated in November 2017, under the aegis of the Fondation de France, the Roquette Foundation for Healthsupports innovative or educational projects in the fields of food and nutrition. Through the projects it
supports, the Foundation’s mission is to primarily act in favor of children and young adults across three areasof intervention: facilitating access to healthy and sustainable food for the most vulnerable, improving
knowledge on the links between food and health, promoting sustainable eating habits that are beneficial tohealth. To know more, click here on the link.
About the Decathlon Foundation
Created in 2005, The Decathlon Foundation supports sports and solidarity projects all around the world to give
people in vulnerable situations access to sport.
The Decathlon Foundation has supported more than 900 projects around the world and gave more than half amillion beneficiaries regular access to sport.
Present in some fifty countries, the Decathlon Foundation has enabled more than 10,000 employees to get
involved in sports and solidarity projects.
To find out more, click on this link.
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