Madison Buras is one of our Dawn Brancheau Service-Learning Scholarship recipients. She loves working with children, and, through her service-learning project, is working to educate kids about healthy lifestyles, including the importance of nutrition and exercise. She chose to partner with the Sally Kate Winters Memorial Children's Home to host educational health clinics a few times a month. Her goal is to teach the children that health and fitness can be fun and easy. Madison wants this to be something they continue to do as they get older.
Her first visit took place in January. She discussed the importance of eating well and exercising daily with the children. Then, the group made smoothies together. Madison laid all of the ingredients out and allowed each child to pick their favorite kinds of fruit and fill a cup with what they wanted in their smoothie. After their healthy snack, everyone went outside to play tag, team races, run an obstacle course, "keep the balloon in the air", hula hoop, jump rope, and bicycling.
Over the next few months, Madison will have similar site visits where she teaches them something about health, shows them a fun, healthy snack, and shows them some fun ways to stay fit and active.
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