We are grateful to the Newport Hospital Foundation for their support which was instrumental in our launch for a health and wellness program in Newport. This hugely successful program focused on getting girls moving!
GSSNE staff had the opportunity to teach girls in a fun, all-girl environment about making healthy and informed choices now, and throughout their lives. Participants enjoyed Zumba and yoga classes, created healthy snacks like "berry wands" and dried fruit bracelets, played tennis on nearby courts, walked to Gooseberry Beach, fine-tuned their hula hooping skills and learned how to make healthy choices each and every day—and had fun doing it. The weekend program was held at Camp Rocky Farm and in our six-week summer Urban Outreach Program at the Martin Luther King Center in Newport—also providing financial aid to 18 girls who could not otherwise afford to participate.
On behalf of our girls - thank you Newport Hospital Foundation!
*Below girls join in on yoga fun with members of Shri, a yoga studio in Pawtucket
which specializes in serving adults and children with developmental and
intellectual disabilities, veterans, children in schools, hospitals and shelters,
incarcerated youth, and men and women in recovery.*
Community Champions!