Maine gets $104K to boost rural health, education
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a total of $104,692 in grants to two Maine organizations to boost health care and education in rural areas.
The USDA’s Rural Development office announced on Friday that the funding is part of a total of $20.4 million in grants for its Distance Learning and Telemedicine program.
The following groups received funding:
• Home-Health Visiting Nurses of Southern Maine, which will receive $51,920 to provide health care to seniors with chronic diseases and “medically fragile” children in rural areas across 36 towns in Cumberland County;
• LearningWorks, Inc., which will receive $52,722 to help teach more than 950 students in three rural high schools and train more than 100 AmeriCorps volunteers;
“Delivering these programs to rural communities that often do not have access to quality, affordable medical and educational services has tremendous economic and social benefits,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a prepared statement.
“[The grants] also mean that people who live and work in rural areas will not have to travel long distances for specialized health care services," he added. "These investments mean that students in rural high schools will have educational opportunities often not available outside urban areas.”
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