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Program gets grant to run childhood obesity out of town - Medill Reports(Childhood Obesity News)

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Chicago Run, a non-profit group that initiates running programs in low- and moderate-income Chicago public schools, received a $50,000 grant from Bank of America to combat childhood obesity in minority communities. Now students â” and sometimes their teachers and principals â” in South and West Side elementary schools run several miles a week for no other reason than their own physical fitness. The 133 runners at Benjamin Mays in Englewood have logged a combined 1,960 miles since the beginning of the school year, and 33 have passed the 26. Once a principal agrees to host the program, a site coordinator at each school, usually the gym teacher, recruits homeroom teachers to commit their classes to the program. The money will go toward expanding the program to more schools, and for planning the programâs annual one-mile fun run in June. Read Childhood Obesity

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