SAFEO has made a specific decision to structure its focus on food, fitness, and health care. Mind, body, and spirit are seriously affected by food, fitness, and health, and with the startling statistic that one in three District of Columbia youths is overweight and obese, the situation is gravest among inner city communities where few affordable and accesible options are available.
Beginning in 2010, SAFEO has been raising public awareness on this issue through three initial grants from the D.C. Children and Youth Investment Trust: one, to expose youth to the food industry, with a view towards directing them to professions where they can have an impact on food quality; another to engage them in a food, fitness, and health care community mapping project where they identify health conscious, cost-effective products and services available to them, their families, and other community residents; and the last, to put them on a regimen of physical exercise for weight loss, toning, and illness prevention.
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