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Plenty's Project that Brings Together
Inner City Youth and Nature
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Kids To The Country, (KTC) is a successful and innovative youth program, that has brought more than 2,800 disadvantaged children from Nashville and Middle Tennessee to The Farm, a community which sits on 1,750 acres of beautiful fields and woods located on the rim of the Nashville Basin near
Summertown, Tennessee.
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| On The Farm the kids swim, canoe, ride horses, make crafts, hike through and study the unique native landscape, walk in creeks, garden, star gaze, play musical instruments, tell stories and bond with new friends.
Since 1986 the youth have come from homeless shelters, low income neighborhoods, refugee centers, churches and urban programs. |
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OUR MISSION
Kids To The Country's mission is:
- to create a multicultural exchange in a rural setting for at risk children,
- to build a positive sense of community through nonviolent conflict resolution skills.
- to promote the growth of healthy relationships between the children.
- to structure activities that instill lasting feelings of accomplishment and self esteem in each child.
The nature school curriculum helps the youth develop a connection with the environment through direct experience that provides them with an enriched worldview.
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| OUR GOALS
Give each child the opportunity to:
- Discover the peace and healing of the natural world.
- Create a positive and memorable childhood experience for children at risk.
- Strengthen each child's sense of self-worth and self-confidence.
- Challenge the children to take responsibility for themselves and
- cooperate with others.
- Teach methods of resolving conflicts peacefully and
- dealing constructively with anger.
- Build and maintain lasting friendships.
- Make it especially fun for all.
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See the Plenty Bulletins for additional articles on KTC.
For further information about Kids To The Country please email us,
or write to KTC, 51 The Farm, Summertown, TN 38483.
All donations to KTC are tax-deductible. We thank you very much.
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