Agency: Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines, Inc.

Project: GSCoast-MakeEveryDanceStepCount

Description:

Mission: North Carolina Coastal Pines is central and eastern North Carolina's preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls, their health, their well-being and their development.

Program Overview: Make Every Dance Step Count is another fun way for girls, volunteers, family and community members to step up their physical activity – as well as their flexibility, strength and endurance - through learning different kinds of dance. Building on our Make Every Step Count program of walking and step-counting to help boost physical activity and build health, this program gives Girl Scouts the opportunity to explore the world of dance by discovering various styles of dance, the culture behind the dances, and the vast health benefits that dancing provides. Dance will raise awareness of the tremendous cardiovascular health benefits of dancing as a way to be physically active while it generates excitement among our girls and adult members for being active. It will also introduce the girls, volunteers and their family members to a variety of dances as well as the cultural significance behind each of them and bring different parts of the community together as they learn them.