EDCI Youth Leadership Council
Empowering young people to make their East Durham community healthier.
GSK is proud to support the East Durham Children’s Initiative (EDCI)’s Youth Leadership Council, a weekly after-school program that empowers East Durham elementary and middle school students to improve their own health and their community via youth-led solutions to neighborhood health challenges.
Since 2016, with the support of GSK, working with more than 200 East Durham 4th and 5th grade students to increase their physical activity and consumption of healthy foods. Students participate in educational workshops delivered by local partners and launched programs of their own. Students who participate in YLC report that they are now eating more fruits and vegetables and have increased weekly physical activity – and so do their families!
Discover more about our healthy community programs
Learn more about our US Community Partnerships
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US Community Partnerships
We invest our charitable funds with nonprofit partners that are doing good for people in need in the communities where we live and work.
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Disaster relief
We invest our charitable funds with US nonprofit partners that are doing good for people in need in the communities where we live and work.
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Community health
Health doesn’t just happen inside the doctor’s office, which is why we invest in local nonprofits making our communities healthier.
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STEM education
Our science education programs inspire youth to pursue careers in science, technology and math.
