Kanawha County Points of Pride

• In 2000, the Adult Expanded food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) enrolled 123 families in the Toyota Families in Schools Project in four schools and at two housing projects.
  
  
• Some 1,000 youths from 15 elementary schools participate in weekly nutrition lessons throughout the school year.
  
  
• 4-H is teaching life skills, enhancing self-esteem, and encouraging service for 1,800 youths and adult leaders in 39 clubs. About 700 of them are involved in camps, overnighters, the State Fair, international programs, and other educational events.
  
  
• More than 40 children from J.E. Robins Elementary School read better because of their participation in Energy Express, a summer reading and nutrition program. Thirty-eight youths, parents, and Foster Grannies volunteered more than 1,400 hours to the six-week program.
  
  
• The Dining With Diabetes Cooking Schools attracted 200 participants. Seminars were held at Montgomery General Hospital, West Virginia Health Right, Union Carbide/Dow Chemical, Grace Bible Church, and Institute Church of the Nazarene.

WVU Kanawha County Extension Office
15 Manfred Holland Way
Dunbar, WV 25064
(304) 768-1202/3/4
FAX (304) 768-6914

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