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LA Marathon Kids - Active Volunteers Needed!
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Description
Marathon Kids is a sixteen-year old, nationally recognized, exercise and nutrition program for K-5th graders. It encourages children to lead a more active and healthy lifestyle by running 26.2 miles over the course of 6 months and eating 5-a-day fruits and vegetables. Currently, in the Los Angeles school district and many other cities nationwide, physical education classes are being cut from the daily curriculum. This situation has contributed to a rise in childhood obesity in Los Angeles from 20.2% in 1999 to 26.1% in 2006.
Marathon Kids offers two free events for participating students and their families, as well as classroom packets and rewards upon completion. Last year, more than 16,000 LAUSD students completed the program and more than 100,000 participated nationwide. CBS Nightly News covered the spring 2008 Final Mile event in Los Angeles, which can be viewed at http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4130515n.
This year's Marathon Kids Final Mile Celebration is scheduled for the morning of Saturday, March 10, 2012 at UCLA Drake Track and Field Stadium: 555 Westwood Plaza, Westwood CA 90024.
The volunteer shifts are:
• 6am-10am: Setup and Greeting
• 7am-11am: Setup and Event
• 8am-12pm: Event and Breakdown
• 10:30am-2pm: Breakdown
(YOU ARE ALSO WELCOME TO STAY AND VOLUNTEER THE ENTIRE DAY!)
You could also volunteer to be a captain and lead a group of volunteers! Captains are required to meet at UCLA on the evening of Friday, March 9th for approximately 1 hour to review plans for the event.
Volunteers are typically involved with tasks such as set-up, ushering the children to the start line, cheering on children while they run, handing out rewards to the finishers, helping children back to their buses and clean-up.
Requirements:
Do you require that volunteers for this position be
Christian?
Organizational Statement of Faith:
Group Minimum and Maximum
0 - 100
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Start Date:
03/09/2013 End Date:
03/09/2013 |
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