Girls Learn Self-Worth on the Run

A chapter of Girls on the Run RI -- a 10-week nonprofit program that helps to teach girls ages 8 to 10 to value themselves -- is coming to Barrington.

Teaching girls to value themselves while handling peer pressure, gossip, bullies and issues with body image and nutrition is what Girls on The Run Rhode Island is all about. And it’s done while training to run a 5K race – a little more than 3 miles. A Barrington chapter of the 10-week non-profit program is being formed for girls in grades three through five, said Kathy Crain of Barrington, the executive director of Girls on the Run RI.  It starts March 11 at Studio 47 of Barrington Pilates on Maple Avenue. That’s the spring program. There will be a fall program as well. Girls on the Run Barrington will use the same 20-lesson curriculum used by other chapters of the program in Rhode Island and across the country to prepare girls for a …

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