Free Family Fitness and Fun was a San Diego fitness programme held in 18 parks and recreation centers.
Instructors were senior physical education students from San Diego State University and community colleges and several thousand San Diego families participated.
The council was established to develop a national programe for physical fitness and sport.
Fundación La Puerta is the non-profit organisation of Rancho La Puerta. It actively supports environmental, social, sporting, arts and educational projects in the Tecate and Mexico/US border area, including the preservation of endangered native plant and wildlife habitat within this region.
Details: Fundacion La PuertaCOMBO has raised more than US$25 million to support 21 cultural organizations. In 1978 it raised more than US$6 million to rebuild the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego.
This national leadership training programme trained CEOs of nonprofit organizations via mentorship programs. Served as Eureka's President through December, 1995. During 11 years with Eureka, Deborah raised $14 million in donations.
The New Americans Museum is an immigration learning centre and museum located in Liberty Station, San Diego, California. The centre and gallery feature programmes highlighting the contributions of immigrants to the US.
Details www.newamericansmuseum.orgLiving Skills was a 5th Grade Curriculum initiative developed by Deborah Szekely with Dr David Kessler, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, she promoted a pilot programme to help educate school children on the importance of healthy lifestyles.
Link: Children's DefenseWellnessWarrior.org was a non-profit, online movement and wellness-news source established to improve the lives of Americans via the prevention of illness, as well as assuring that the nation's food, water and farmlands were free of chemicals and GMOs.
The intention for Wellness Warrior was to raise awareness that wellness is more than a lifestyle issue, wellness is more than a health issu and that with the rise in American health disparities and diminished lifespan, that wellness had become a question of justice.
Deborah Szekely was the first in the wellness industry to recognize America was in crisis and she took steps to democratise wellness through political accountability.
Wellness Warrior awarded nonpartisan digital report cards that tracked members of the Senate and Congress on wellness votes to increase accountability among elected officials and began a wellness industry conversation that has only deepened during the global pandemic.
Wellness Warrior organised "wellness day on the Hill" to lobby the US government about healthy equity.
Our Green Umbrella is a newly-established initiative to plant trees throughout the Tecate Mexico community in honor of Deborah Szekely's 100th birthday.
The initiative will see a water truck purchased and trees planted in Tecate schoolyards, parks, and underserved neighborhoods to cast their protective shade over the community.
"As a tree grows, so does a person, a family, a business, a community and a greener, cooler world!" says Szekely.
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