Created:   03/22/2012 08:03:05 AM PDT

Woodland Montessori elementary students have been awarded $2,000 in grants to help their fellow classmates eat more fruit.

They won a $1,000 UnitedHealth HEROES Grant from Youth Service America and UnitedHealth Group and $1,000 from California 4-H Revolution of Responsibility, according to a news release from Marcel Horowitz with UC Cooperative Extension.

This project teaches their classmates how to eat healthier by adding more fruit to their school day. The funding provides weekly deliveries of fresh organic fruit to the children's school, where students can snack on apples, oranges, pears and mangos when they get hungry.

The...