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Food Justice Advocates! Help plan/do May 22nd Healthy Food Day of Action
ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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5 people are interested
In May 2024, Seeds in the Middle plans its 4th annual Healthy Food Day of Action. We need everyone who cares about food justice and wants to overcome food, health, educational disparities to come on board!
We believe healthy eating is a civil right and we have asked for funding to ensure every school or community in food deserts in NYC can set up their own locally run farm stands and fresh markets and cafes, especially by students in schools.
Tentative dates is Wednesday, May 22, 2024.
On Healthy Food Day of Action:
9-10a: Meet at Borough Hall and make signs
10:15a - Walk over Brooklyn Bridge with signs and chanting to City Hall with Brooklyn students demanding fresh food for all
11a - 12p - News conference and join students to give letters and petitions to members of Mayor Adams' office and City Council members
12-1p - speak to reporters, have lunch
If you can help before Healthy Food Day of Action, here's where we need help:
1. Join us in classrooms or virtually to coach students on how to write letters to their elected officials
2. Help advertise the event and recruit more schools and marchers
3. Get petition signature from anyone!
4. Help advocate for food justice and do anything to get people to join us
5. Put signs up for event and spread word via social media, etc.
See us in 2023: https://bronx.news12.com/brooklyn-students-battle-for-funding-to-combat-food-insecurity
See us in 2022 - https://pix11.com/news/local-news/brooklyn/brooklyn-families-seek-increased-access-to-fresh-produce/
See us in 2021: The War Against Food Deserts - https://www.amny.com/lifestyle/city-living/he-war-against-food-deserts-children-march-over-brooklyn-bridge-calling-for-healthier-options/
Please reply back with what you can do or go to bit.ly/seedsvolunteersignup
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About Seeds in the Middle
Location:
153 Warren Street, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, US
Mission Statement
Seeds in the Middle partners with students, educators, parents & their communities to access all opportunities, beginning with improving health, enhancing arts education and greening their environment. We empower and educate all to get healthy and scale educational and social disparities. Our pilot schools are in central Brooklyn, a neighborhood with among the city’s highest obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. We teach how to grow, market, cook, access and prepare fresh food, how to exercise & engage in the arts, all the elements needed to promote life-changing lifelong health. Our volunteers come from all walks of life. We cross cultures. We transform gray into green, destitution into inspiration.
Description
Seeds in the Middle offers joyful, healthy interventions that nurture the whole child and address the multiple obstacles blocking low-income children and families from getting healthy. We teach how to grow edible gardens, run a student-led Hip2B Healthy Market, bring chefs into schools, started soccer, running and fitness programs at school and in the community and music and arts in the schools. We integrate professional development for teachers so that a healthy lifestyle and environmental stewardship becomes organic and sustainable in the school community. To build community, we created Soccer for Harmony tournaments and the Crown Heights Farmers Market. In two years, we have engaged more than 1,000 families, and students and teachers report changing their habits to include more fruits and vegetables, and fitness. This is a pilot for any school and Seeds in the Middle plans to replicate.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
City Hall Park PathNew York, NY 10007
DATE POSTED
February 7, 2024
SKILLS
- Tutoring
- Literacy / Reading
- Marketing & Communications (Mar/Com)
- Advocacy
- Reading / Writing
- Public Advocacy
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Any age can take part. We welcome all.
- Just be reliable.