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Charity Breakfast for No Kids Left Indoors

Join Village Shores in supporting No Kids Left Indoors by attending a Free Will Donation Breakfast.

All proceeds will be donated to this worthy cause.

 Date: Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

 Time: 9:30-10:30am         FREE WILL DONATION

Through this event we hope to rasie funds to get kids to the outdoors. A conditon exisits in many of today's kids that has been labeled "Nature Deficit Disorder". It describes the cost of alienation from Nature--it is the demisihed use of sense, attention difficulties, higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses for children.

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When kids spend time in Nature---it reduces stress, makes them more focused, enhances social emotional development, improves school performance, enhances creativity, problem sloving ability, self-control, self-esteem, improves cognative ability and improves health.

 

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