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Action for Healthy Kids and Cargill Help 70 Schools
Pennsylvania Ag Connection - 10/18/2018

Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK), Chicago, Ill., announced 70 recipients of school grants provided through funding from Cargill, Minnetonka, Minn., for the 2018-19 school year. Awarded in Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, the grants provide schools with funding and technical support using AFHK's Game On program to help expand student access to in-school physical activity and healthy foods, improve knowledge and behaviors around exercise and nutrition, and engage parents in activities that reinforce healthy habits at home.

Through the grants, AFHK helps schools develop school health teams which are critical to creating healthy schools, assess their school health environment, and successfully implement nutrition and physical activity initiatives. Ranging from $500 to help returning grantees sustain their programs and $1,000 for new grantees, schools use grant funds to support:

- physical activity initiatives, such as funding for physical education, active indoor and outdoor recess, classroom energizers, walking and running clubs, and before- and after-school programs; and

- nutrition initiatives, such as nutrition education, school gardens, taste tests, and healthy classroom parties and celebrations that introduce students to the value of a healthy diet.

"Through our partnership with Cargill, we are helping more schools each year improve nutrition, physical activity and health-promoting policies and practices for the long term," said Rob Bisceglie, CEO, Action for Healthy Kids. "These much-needed resources help schools not only improve the health habits of their students but also help them demonstrate the link between physical activity, good nutrition and learning."

For a complete list of schools funded by Cargill in the 2018-19 school year, visit ActionforHealthyKids.org/Cargill.


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