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and recovering from stress, improve recovery from injury and <br />illness, and increase productivity. Simply viewing plants has <br />been shown to reduce fear, anger, blood pressure, and muscle <br />tension. <br />• Provide employment, education, and entrepreneurship <br />opportunities for a wide range of people including students, <br />immigrants, and the homeless — a serious issue Santa Ana has <br />recently formed a Task Force address. <br />• Transform vacant lots that are magnets for litter and criminal <br />activity into clean, green space with a more active local <br />community. <br />• Provide residents without land of their own the opportunity to <br />produce food. <br />• Provide access to fresh produce and nutritionally rich foods to <br />low-income areas where it is less available. <br />• Provide an area for recreation and exercise. <br />• Foster community interaction to establish relationships within <br />and across physical and social barriers. <br />• Decrease crime. <br />• Even the distribution of urban greenspaces to low-income <br />areas. <br />• Reduce soil erosion and restore oxygen to the air. <br />• Serve as an outdoor classroom where youth can learn valuable <br />skills involving practical math, communication, responsibility, <br />and cooperation. <br />(d) General Community Benefit and/or Youth Programs: <br />In addition to these Tentpole "Youth and Community Benefit <br />Programs", the WCW Team will continue with the toy, <br />clothing, food drives, and charitable fundraising that they have <br />engaged in for over a decade to assist those less fortunate. <br />23 <br />