New Project Georgia hosts ‘Health, Wealth, Self’ event in Columbus

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) – New Georgia Challenge, a nonprofit, nonpartisan civic engagement group, made a cease within the Fountain Metropolis Saturday to assist bridge the hole between healthcare and self care in the neighborhood.

New Georgia Challenge believes within the energy of Georgians they are saying have been ignored for too lengthy: Black and brown individuals, younger, LGBTQ+ individuals, rural residents, and others who’ve the facility to maneuver the Peach State ahead.

The group gathered at Lake Backside Park in Columbus to provide away recent produce, toiletry objects, host a yoga class, give massages, and rather more.

”The idea of ‘Well being, Wealth, Self’ was – we had been going to take this massive dialog of healthcare and break it right down to self care,” mentioned Kristen Vermetten. “How can we make you’re feeling nice on this lovely Saturday in Columbus? We had portray tutorials, therapeutic massage remedy, yoga courses, stay gardening stations, a produce isle the place you can go and choose up groceries.”

New Georgia Challenge travels throughout the state, campaigning for change for a number of totally different matters.

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