YOUNGSTERS are set to benefit from a new health scheme designed to get people eating more healthily and exercising more regularly.
More than 40 homeless Greenwich youngsters, aged 16 to 25, are being supported by the housing project Nacro Creekside Foyer which was recently awarded a £47,000 grant from Greenwich Council's youth capital fund.
The project, based in the Creekside Foyer Learning Centre, in Stowage, Deptford, has used some of the cash to launch a scheme giving the youngsters access to a gym, fitness classes and healthy eating sessions alongside art and drama therapy sessions.
Project worker Hessell Williams said: “Most of the young people we work with come from troubled backgrounds and haven’t been taught how to take care of their own basic health needs.”
“Many of them have experienced family breakdown, and it’s those issues we’re hoping to work through with weekly art and drama therapy sessions."
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