Volunteers to Build Playground at Dream Weavers of Georgia in Alpharetta
July 15 2016 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
- Alpharetta residents and
UnitedHealthcare employees to build 2,538-square-foot playground in
six hours
Today more than 200 Alpharetta residents and UnitedHealthcare
employees will build a new playground at Dream Weavers of Georgia’s
Kalen Center.
The new 2,538-square-foot playground will include a Cozy Cocoon,
Spiral Slide, Tic-Tac-Toe Activity Wall and more. The playground’s
design is based on drawings created by children from Dream Weavers
who participated in a “design day” event in May. The new playground
will help give more than 3,600 kids in Alpharetta the play-filled
childhood they deserve.
Dream Weavers of Georgia, Inc., is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to enriching the lives of foster children, with a goal to
create opportunities and provide resources that promote
educational, emotional and social well-being of Georgia’s foster
children. The new playground will serve as a “live lab” to teach
parents how to engage with their children and to assist in
reuniting families. It will offer a safe space where treatment team
members can observe the children in play in a natural
environment.
The volunteers will work with KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit
organization that helps bring balanced and active play into the
daily lives of children. The Alpharetta playground is the 2,785th
KaBOOM!-organized build since 1996, and the 20th to be created by
KaBOOM! and UnitedHealthcare.
“We’re incredibly grateful to UnitedHealthcare, KaBOOM! and all
the volunteers for their help in bringing the joy of play to the
children and families Dream Weavers serves,” said Fred Moeller,
founder, Dream Weavers. “We’re thrilled to have this awesome, new
playground that will benefit hundreds of children for years to
come.”
“UnitedHealthcare is honored to help build a playground with a
nonprofit partner who works hard to serve children in the foster
care system and their families,” said Garland Scott, CEO,
UnitedHealthcare of Georgia. “We believe the new playground at
Dream Weavers will help inspire children to participate in healthy
activities by playing and exercising outdoors.”
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 local opportunities to get involved, visit
DoGoodLiveWell.org. Follow @DoGoodLiveWell on Twitter or "like" Do
Good. Live Well. on Facebook.
UnitedHealthcare serves more than 1.2 million Georgians with a
network of 168 hospitals and nearly 25,000 physicians and other
care providers statewide.
About Dream WeaversDream Weavers of Georgia,
Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to
enriching the lives of foster children. The goal of Dream Weavers
is to create opportunities and provide resources that promote
educational, emotional and social well-being of Georgia’s foster
children. Please join them in this mission to lift up foster
children to be all they can be.
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 nearly 16,300
playgrounds, engaged more than one million volunteers and served
8.1 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 @myUHC on Twitter.
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