New England Patriots and UnitedHealthcare Build a Playground for Blackstone Valley Prep in Cumberland
September 18 2018 - 6:43PM
Business Wire
Hundreds of volunteers, including Patriots
players, built a 3,000-square-foot playground in six hours
Today more than 200 members of the Cumberland community and
UnitedHealthcare employees joined the New England Patriots and
KaBOOM! to build a new playground at Blackstone Valley Prep’s (BVP)
Elementary School 3.
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Scholars from Blackstone Valley Prep
Elementary School 3 watch as volunteers from UnitedHealthcare and
members of the Cumberland community build a new playground with
nonprofit KaBOOM! and the New England Patriots (Photo: Alan
Grant).
Blackstone Valley Prep is a K-4th-grade elementary school in the
Providence-based public charter school network of the same name.
Known as Elementary School 3, the school is expanding and has moved
into a new location that previously housed high school students,
yet lacks a playground.
“We were excited to team with UnitedHealthcare to turn this
dream of a new playground into a reality for Blackstone Valley
Prep,” said Josh Kraft, president of the New England Patriots
Foundation. “We know the value of physical activity and exercise,
particularly for children, and this new space will give students a
place to play for years to come.”
The new play space will give the more than 400 students a place
to engage in safe and healthy activities. In July, students from
BVP’s Elementary School 3 helped design the new 3,000-square-foot
playground during a special “design day” event, incorporating new
elements such as a triple racer slide, ripple bridge, superdome
climber and more.
“Many of us take for granted that there will be great community
play spaces without putting in the time to coordinate designing and
building them,” said Josh Falk, Head of School, Blackstone
Valley Prep Elementary School 3. “We are confident that this
playground will mean a great deal to our scholars and our
community, particularly for people who may not have access to many
great playground or green spaces like this.”
“UnitedHealthcare is grateful for the opportunity to work with
the Patriots, KaBOOM! and the Cumberland community to build this
new playground at BVP Elementary School 3,” said Stephen Farrell,
CEO, UnitedHealthcare of New England. “This new play space will
give these kids a place to play and exercise outdoors with their
friends and families, while creating healthy habits that will last
a lifetime.”
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 3,099th
KaBOOM!-organized build since 1996, the 28th created by KaBOOM! and
UnitedHealthcare, and the 9th 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.
About the Blackstone Valley PrepBlackstone Valley Prep
(BVP) is a network of high performing, tuition-free public charter
schools. As a growing, intentionally diverse network of six
schools, BVP offers a high quality public school choice to the
families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln and Pawtucket and
currently serves nearly 2,000 scholars in grades K-12. BVP's
mission is to prepare every scholar for success in college and the
world beyond. More information can be found at
www.blackstonevalleyprep.org
About KaBOOM!KaBOOM! is the national non-profit dedicated
to giving all kids – especially those living in poverty – the
childhood they deserve through great, safe places to play. KaBOOM!
inspires communities to make play the easy choice and works to
drive the national discussion about the importance of PLAYces.
KaBOOM! has collaborated with partners to build or improve more
than 17,000 playspaces, engaged more than 1.5 million volunteers
and served over 9 million kids. To learn why play matters for all
kids, visit kaboom.org and join the conversation at
twitter.com/kaboom, facebook.com/kaboom and instagram.com/kaboom.
#playmatters #PLAYceforKids
About UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to
helping people live healthier lives and making the health system
work better for everyone by simplifying the health care experience,
meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted
relationships with care providers. In the United States,
UnitedHealthcare offers the full spectrum of health benefit
programs for individuals, employers, and Medicare and Medicaid
beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 1.2 million
physicians and care professionals, and 6,500 hospitals and other
care facilities nationwide. The company also provides health
benefits and delivers care to people through owned and operated
health care facilities in South America. UnitedHealthcare is one of
the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified
health care company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare
at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.
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