New England Patriots and UnitedHealthcare Build a Playground for Bridge Boston Charter School
September 26 2017 - 6:58PM
Business Wire
Hundreds of volunteers, including Patriots
players, built a 2,400-square-foot playground in six hours
Today more than 200 Bostonians and UnitedHealthcare employees
joined the New England Patriots and KaBOOM! to build a new
playground at the Bridge Boston Charter School.
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Today more than 200 Bostonians and
UnitedHealthcare employees joined the New England Patriots and
KaBOOM! to build a new playground at the Bridge Boston Charter
School. The new play space, which was designed by the school's
students and staff, will give the more than 250 kids a place to
engage in safe and healthy activities (Photo:
UnitedHealthcare).
The new play space will give the more than 250 students a place
to engage in safe and healthy activities. Earlier in the summer,
Bridge Boston students and staff helped design the new
2,400-square-foot playground during a special “design day” event,
incorporating new elements such as a slither slide, cliff hanger
and timber trail bridge.
“We were excited to team with UnitedHealthcare to turn this
dream of a new playground into a reality for the Bridge Boston
Charter School,” said Josh Kraft, president, New England Patriots
Foundation. “We know the value of physical activity and exercise,
particularly for children, and that this new space will give
students a place to play for years to come.”
The Bridge Boston Charter School, designed to serve as a school
and community hub for Bridge Boston families, opened its new campus
in August.
“The new playground affirms our commitment to nurture the whole
child at Bridge Boston Charter School,” said Yully Cha, executive
director, Bridge Boston Charter School. “From design day to build
day, the excitement around this project is energizing for our
growing school and community family.”
“UnitedHealthcare is grateful for the opportunity to help build
a playground that will give children at the Bridge Boston Charter
School a place to play and exercise outdoors with their friends and
families, while creating healthy habits that will last a lifetime,”
said Stephen Farrell, CEO, UnitedHealthcare of New England.
Volunteers worked with KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit
organization that helps bring balanced and active play into
children’s daily lives. The Boston playground is the 2,974th
KaBOOM!-organized build since 1996, the 24th created by KaBOOM! and
UnitedHealthcare and the 8th built with the Patriots.
This playground build is part of UnitedHealthcare’s “Do Good.
Live Well.” program, an employee-volunteer initiative dedicated to
decreasing hunger and obesity, inspiring service and encouraging
volunteerism.
For more information about the benefits of volunteering and to
find opportunities to volunteer alongside UnitedHealthcare in your
community, visit DoGoodLiveWell.org. Follow @DoGoodLiveWell on
Twitter or "like" Do Good. Live Well. on Facebook.
UnitedHealthcare serves nearly 500,000 people in Massachusetts
with a network of 115 hospitals and about 50,000 physicians and
other care providers statewide.
About the Bridge Boston Charter SchoolFounded in 2011,
Bridge Boston Charter School is a tuition-free, public charter
school which aims to impact the education, health and
social-emotional wellbeing of children in some of Boston’s most
underserved neighborhoods. The school currently serves 272 students
in pre-K through 5th grade, with plans to grow by a grade annually
to serve a total of 335 pre-K through 8th graders. Bridge Boston
believes that the most effective way to lift children out of
poverty is by equipping them with an excellent education. As such,
the school offers a longer day from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and
school year from August – June, and provides academic rigor, a
commitment to nurturing the whole child and a breadth of
full-service programming to remove obstacles to learning.
About KaBOOM!KaBOOM! is the national non-profit dedicated
to giving all kids – particularly those growing up in poverty in
America – the childhood they deserve filled with balanced and
active play, so they can thrive. Since 1996, KaBOOM! has
collaborated with partners to build, open, or improve more than
16,700 playgrounds, engaged more than one million volunteers, and
served 8.5 million kids. KaBOOM! creates great places to play,
inspires communities to promote and support play, and works to
drive the national discussion about the importance of play in
fostering healthy and productive lives. To learn why #playmatters
and why cities are embracing #playability:
visit kaboom.org or join the conversation
at twitter.com/kaboom or facebook.com/kaboom.
About UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to
helping people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the
health care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs,
and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The
company offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for
individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and
their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with 1 million physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities
nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and
well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at
www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.
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