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Non-profit takes fitness online for underserved communities during COVID-19
The non-profit FIT4THECAUSE focuses on bringing health and fitness to low-income communities. Before the coronavirus pandemic, founder Cindy Rakowitz, and the FIT4THECAUSE team were doing fitness and nutrition classes in hospitals, schools and senior living facilities from the northern parts of Ventura County all the way to the east San Fernando Valley. With group gatherings no longer being an option, they had to think of other ways to keep people fit. "She's (Cindy) encouraging us, now what she did was when all this stopped it didn't stop her...(Cindy) said, 'How can we do this, how can we bring these lessons' and she set up a studio and she does them via Zoom," said Irene Miscione, a volunteer for th...
06.08.20 | 01:40 | CC
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Non-profit takes fitness online for underserved communities during COVID-19
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