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BIDDEFORD, Maine

UNE hosts festival for Boys and Girls Club

UNE students work with the Boys and Girls Club

University of New England students from the Westbrook College of Health Professions welcomed 50 students from the Boys and Girls Club of Portland to a festival in the Harold Alfond Forum.

WCHP students led stations for health education about healthy food choices, safe backpack fitting, and proper dental hygiene techniques, as well as activities in sports skills, arts and crafts, and team building. The event was held in partnership with Snap-Ed, which donated lunch boxes and provided healthy eating education, and with Sodexo, which donated healthy dinners for the children.

The Boys and Girls Club students were enthralled to engage in meaningful activities with college students and spend time on the Biddeford campus. Each of them left with a properly fitted backpack donated by the UNE students and faculty, as well as the awareness of prevention of common backpack injuries. 

Gwenyth Breslen makes paper flowers with a student from the Boys and Girls Club
Gwenyth Breslen makes paper flowers with a student from the Boys and Girls Club

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.