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Duke Healthy Lifestyles Active Kids / Active Teens Program Donation Drive

July 16th, 2011

The Duke Healthy Lifestyles Clinic is a comprehensive and family-centered medical treatment program for childhood obesity. Roughly 1000 patients visit the Healthy Lifestyles Clinic each year.

The Active Kids/ Active Teens Program – Healthy Lifestyles’ largest community outreach project – is a free, supervised, and safe place for Healthy Lifestyles patients and their families to be active, gain peer support, and learn cooking skills outside of school hours. Active Kids/ Active Teens builds a lifelong commitment to wellness through a motivating environment that teaches how to care for your body, fosters friendships, encourages peer support, endorses individual accountability, promotes self-confidence, and demonstrates that anyone can achieve wellness.

Duke Active Kids/ Active Teens is moving to a new location this fall, and is in need of donations of gently used sports and fitness equipment.

What can I donate?

  • Gently used commercial-grade exercise equipment, such as treadmills, stationary bicycles, elliptical machines, weight machines, etc.
  • Gently used athletic shoes and clothing, including t-shirts, shorts, swimsuits, sports bras, etc. Large sizes are needed.
  • Sports equipment: balls (all kinds), gloves, tennis racquets, bicycles, Frisbees, etc.
  • Fitness equipment: free weights, jump-ropes, hula-hoops, cones, resistance bands, yoga mats, exercise balls

Donation sites

Small items:

Saturday, July 16
8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Durham Farmers Market
8 a.m. -- Free Zumba class on the lawn. Cash and equipment donations accepted, but not necessary.

Sunday, July 17
12 - 6 p.m.
Durham Whole Foods

Large items:

Email dukeactiveteens@gmail.com to schedule a pick-up.

See Active Teens featured in this week's The Herald-Sun.

Find more details in this flyer.