Georgiana School awarded a Be Healthy School Grant
Published 6:37 pm Monday, October 7, 2024
- Georgiana School is one of 36 Alabama schools to receive funding through the Blue Cross Be Healthy School grant program. Photo submitted.
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In a commitment to help prevent childhood obesity, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama’s Be Healthy School Grant Program is awarding over $318,000 in grants to 36 schools statewide. Georgiana School in Butler County is one of the schools enrolling grades K through 12 which will receive the grants.
Grant funds are used to implement school-based health and wellness programs, emphasizing increased exercise, nutrition, education and parental involvement during the school year. Some examples include new physical education equipment, walking tracks and bicycles, school gardens, rock climbing walls and adaptive playground equipment.
Representatives of the school system were not immediately available to comment.
Each school is receiving a grant of up to $10,000 and more than 17,000 students will benefit from the program. Since 2012, Blue Cross has awarded over $3.2 million in 356 Be Healthy School Grants statewide, impacting more than 168,000 students.
