Here I am, Saturday morning enjoying a little free time with my computer on a chair (the only chair in the house) and my self seating on a table that we put over some blocks that we call sofa.

This is how we leave now, out of the facilities of IICD life, now we are living in one of the poorest communities in Brazil, living in some way as they live. When we arrive to the house it was not ready to receive people, part because the project got out of money so they couldn’t by all the furniture, part because no one check the house before bringing us to it.

The house was without running water on the bathroom and in the kitchen. We only had one tap on the backyard. From there we had to take the water to go to the bathroom, to wash the dishes, to take a shower, etc.

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It's been like that since HEALTHY Armstrong bought 150 mountain bikes and helmets, 30 for each of the school district's four senior high schools and its junior high school in Kittanning, at a total of about $53,000 using some of the funding from a... HEALTHY Armstrong is a community partnership of ACMH Hospital, ACMH Foundation, Armstrong School District, Children's Community Pediatrics-Armstrong, Armstrong County government and UPMC Health Plan. --> The gyms in the Armstrong School District aren't as busy as they used to be. That's because a lot of the physical education class students are outside riding mountain bikes. "One of the goals of HEALTHY Armstrong is to increase the physical activity of the kids so this was one of the ways we chose to do that," said HEALTHY Armstrong project director Kay Owen.

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