Healthy Neighborhoods/Healthy Kids
The Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Kids Project engages students in community planning and revitalization activities by having them draw connections between the design of their communities and impacts on their health. Trained teachers and volunteers direct students in activities involving community-based research, assessment, and service learning projects. By completing specific projects that affect the health of their neighborhood, students gain skills to act as engaged citizens now and in the future, and learn they can make a difference!
VIC has partnered with the Shelburne Farms Sustainable Schools Project to implement the Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Kids Program in two pilot schools in Puerto Plata with great success. The Program will embrace two additional schools next year.
We have not inherited the world from our forefathers -- we have borrowed it from our children."
- Kashmiri proverb