This 12 months, we’re excited to accomplice with the Movemeant Foundation for our Move with AF Challenge. The Movemeant Foundation’s mission is to show girls and women that health and bodily motion is crucial to unlocking the values of self-confidence, resiliency, dedication, steadiness, and group.

Movemeant does this by impactful applications and occasions that empower women to embody confidence and develop wholesome habits. One of those applications is Generation Confident, a center college curriculum geared in direction of the adolescence of a women’ life that discusses essential subjects like social media’s affect on magnificence requirements, mindfulness, physique positivity and genetics. These conversations occur in an informal, supportive setting, with an overlay of artistic, up to date bodily programming reminiscent of dance, yoga, and even kickboxing.

Kate, a Generation Confident participant, mentioned, “It helped me to become more confident in myself and be comfortable with my peers. It impacted my life in many positive ways I didn’t expect.”

In addition to Generation Confident programming, Movemeant gives Meant to Move grants, that are awarded to younger feminine athletes from economically deprived backgrounds. This 12 months, the muse additionally created COVID-19 aid grants for health and wellness instructors who had been adapting their enterprise to satisfy the digital wants of their audiences. Both of those grants have a direct affect on girls within the health business who’re dealing with disadvantages and assist them make a constructive affect and hold health of their lives.

We’re excited to be taught extra concerning the work the Movemeant Foundation has completed – let’s hear it from a few of their program members!

KM Suleman

Last 12 months, KM, a aggressive rock climber, gained a Meant to Move grant. Thanks to the grant, she was in a position to meet different climbers her age by intensive clinics and nationwide competitions. “We cheered for each other and pushed each other to be better climbers,” she says of her group.

Not solely did she make new mates – the grant helped her attain her aim of becoming a member of Team USA for Bouldering. When she’s sufficiently old, she desires to signify the USA in worldwide competitions and the Olympics. Keep climbing, KM!

Jessica

Jessica is a two-year member of the Movemeant Foundation’s Generation Confident program, which helped her uncover her love of dance. “Dance has helped me come out of my shell and feel comfortable with myself,” she says. Through making an attempt quite a lot of dances, she’s realized that it’s a real ardour of hers. “It has helped me believe in myself and tell a story through dance without having to say a word; I can express all my emotions and feel as if I’m living in a new world.” In addition to studying to precise herself by dance, having a sort mentor that she trusts and classmates which are supportive of her has additionally been a major bonus to this system.

Mayra Villabos (left) & Grace Yu (proper)

Mayra and Grace are each small enterprise house owners within the health area who obtained COVID-19 aid grants from Movemeant. It’s tales like theirs that make the work Movemeant does so impactful.

“I am so grateful to Movemeant Foundation for supporting small businesses like mine and giving us the boost we needed to keep building our classes over the past few crazy months,” says Grace.

Thanks to the grant, Mayra was in a position to get her digital studio – a key think about weathering COVID-19 shutdowns – up and working. “It feels nice to be supported and recognized as a movement facilitator. I have been dreaming of starting my own business, and now I have been given that extra push and encouragement.”

Isabella Beauchamp

Isabella, certainly one of Movemeant’s Meant to Move grant winners, has been mountaineering for seven years, With the grant, she was in a position to buy new gear that took her climbing to the subsequent degree. The alternative motivated her to maintain working arduous and never hand over on herself, and her aim is to make it to USA Climbing’s Divisional Competition (the competitors proper earlier than Nationals) and proceed climbing for years to return.

“This grant has made me feel like I matter and can do anything. Positivity and practice have pushed me to be the best climber I can be.”

In partnering with the Movemeant Foundation, we cherished studying how their work instantly impacts and empowers girls and women. We look ahead to seeing how this partnership creates many extra success tales to return!

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