Legacy Center VIA Projects
Leadership, Accomplishment, Giving and Play

Every VIA participant and team declares extraordinary projects that are accomplished within a context of play.

While participating in Legacy Center's advanced leadership program VIA (Vision in Action), one participant, was exploring the concept of games and bringing play into the area of health. As part of VIA, she created an eight week game of healthy competition The purpose of the game is to win! The players who accumulate the most healthy points over the eight weeks win healthy grand prizes. In this game, everyone has an opportunity to win. The goal of the game is that everyone has a fresh experience, learns things they didn't know about themselves and finds out what works for them regarding their health. In the process everyone gets to have big wins and create healthy habits that can last a lifetime. The game has rules, players, ways to score, accountability, and ways to win!

As a team, VIA 1 of Legacy Center has committed to improving the Oak Grove Athletic facility to better support the good work of the Oak Grove Association for Athletes, Inc for youth. They will through volunteers and donations provide and install a new gym floor, a composite multi-purpose gym floor measuring 47 by 76 feet. Other needs to be met include:
- Grass seed and fertilizer for 4 baseball fields and 1 soccer/football field
- Scoreboards (outside for each field; inside for basketball)
- Field lighting is currently outdated and in need of repair/replacement
- Fill dirt for middle baseball field for proper drainage
- Field maintenance and repair
- Fencing repair/maintenance
- Ceiling repair in gym
- Upgrading of rest room facilities (partitions and urinals)
- Outdoor water fountains
In the community of Oak Grove in Durham, NC, youth from the neighborhood have a place to go and people who care about them. It is a place where they can play sports and pass the time in positive ways, but more importantly, learn about team, sportsmanship, and what it is to be supported by an their own community. For more than 40 years, the Oak Grove Association for Athletes, Inc. (OGAA), a non-profit (501c3) organization, has offered this facility for neighborhood youth to play organized sports. OGAA provides sports programs in basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, football and cheerleading for area youth age 4 to 17 and serves youth from Durham, Wake, Granville and Orange counties.

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