Empowering All Girls Through Running Transcript

KAYLEE: My name is Kaylee Nevaeh Mitchell, and I go to Epic Elementary. And this group of girls is called "Girls on the Run." And "Girls on the Run" is amazing, because we get to learn all about each other, and all about respect, and kindness, and being caring towards each other, and a lot of other good things.

GROUP: One, two…Eleven, twelve.

SADIE: My name is Sadie, and I go to Epic. About "Girls on the Run," with my friends,
we do exercise, and we run, and have fun. And be happy.

GROUP: 1,2,3. You did it, You did it, You did it !

KARIN and GROUP: Ready, and , You did good!

KARIN: So, I have gotten to be a "Girls on the Run" coach. One of the most brilliant things about being at Epic, and being part of "Girls on the Run," is the pilot program that they have embraced. Very often you don't have a program, when it's created, are thinking about different populations, and the different population that we're addressing are girls with disabilities. So, everything within this curricula has been adapted for a girl who happens to have a disability, and now they're gonna take this pilot and implement it all over the country, and the world. How great is that?

RUTHIE: My name is Ruthie Grace Blakeney, I go to school at Saint James, and this is "Girls on the Run." I kind of like it because I get to do one of my favorite things, it’s run, and I get to learn a little more about that I shouldn't feel like left out because of, that I'm in a wheelchair. It's special to me because I get to be with my friends in the afternoon doing mostly what I love. It makes me feel more included.

GROUP: Girls on the Run is so much fun! 1,2,3. Girls on the Run is so much fun!