Wingate FACE Program

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Gallup is a location of our in Action program – Wingate Family and Child Education, two Leadership programs are successfully completed by NM. Their first project was an HF held in partnership with diverse health professionals from NN. The instruction on healthy cooking, zumba dance and fitness classes were included in events program.

The second one project is a Native Culture Celebration (NCC) for the community, it’s launched in December. The activities revolved around the multi-usefulness of corn in Native life and included, grinding, preparing corn mush, and creating corn husk dolls. Short stories and plays were presented about the importance of the coyote in Native culture. There were also offered some activities as using different bows and decorative candies for holiday wreath.

Furthermore, the WFiA group is really well-versed in the art of public speaking as this kind of skill is necessary for presentations, which were given to groups invested in furthering the FiA program goals. To celebrate their accomplishments, the group organized a trip to Albuquerque, NM to visit the Albuquerque Zoo, NM Museum of Natural History and Science, and ITZ Family Food and Fun.