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Latino kids NEED more more places to be active.

WATCH and VOTE for your favorite “#SaludHeroes of Active Spaces” by Nov. 11, 2015, and be entered in a random drawing to win a FREE T-shirt and jump rope!

#SaludHeroes are:

Health at Your Fingertips. Baker Harrell and others created an app to bring real-time, geo-located fitness opportunities to people’s phones in Austin, Texas.

Move it, Move it. Angela Mora and other city and community leaders teamed up to bring new walking trails to El Paso, Texas.

Unlock the Gates. Susan Elizabeth and other leaders unlocked school playgrounds and fields—and the community showed up to use them in Earlimart, Calif.

Complete Streets. Pedestrians and cyclists have safer streets and walkways thanks to the city’s “complete streets” policy in San Antonio, Texas.

Homes w/ Physical Activity. Saul Villareal and his housing group decided to add new recreational facilities in new affordable housing developments in South Texas.

Schools Get Hip. El Paso school officials created the Get HIP Now program to provide integrated school health programming and afterschool fitness.

The #SaludHeroes with the most votes will be announced in an email and a social media messages from Salud America! by Nov. 14, 2015.

Go here to vote, enter the random drawing, and see contest rules.

Salud America! is a Latino childhood obesity network funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and led by Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. Salud America! runs a periodic voting contest.