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MLK Day of Service - Sports? Food? Arts! Join Hip2B Healthy Days for BK Youth
ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle
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69 people are interested
Join our Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service at PS 284 in Brownsville OR PS 770 in Crown Heights! Our Focus? Environmental and Food Justice, Arts and Healthy Environments for all Children.
This is our 6th annual MLK Day of Service event to empower youth and their families to call for positive changes and create a fun, healthy day in central Brooklyn.
Come to Brownsville and Crown Heights and empower students with high needs! Be the change!
Our host schools are PS 284 and PS 770.
Read about PS 284 at https://insideschools.org/school/23K284
See PS 770 at https://insideschools.org/school/17K770
We want to create a fun day with lots of healthy options, like arts, fitness, healthy food, cooking, anything you would like to offer.
Seeking volunteers to help with:
- Student-run Farmers Market, offering fresh produce at low prices
- Student-run Hip2B Healthy Market, featuring healthy, fresh juices and snacks for only 50 cents
- Cooking classes and demos - including in Spanish!
- Talent Show
- Free health screenings and health info
- Flea Market - all vendors welcome, only $20 a table -
- Arts activities with children
- Face-painting?
- Sports clinics -basketball, soccer, running
- Wellness - yoga, whatever you want...
- Composting for market
- Leading a Million Youth March (want to create a civil rights march that also gets kids to walk or run?)
- Tutoring - (we are seeking to create a longer-term match of tutors with youth, grade 3 and up)
- Help students write letters to the mayor and the chancellor, asking for what they need to achieve
Our MLK Days are joyful events, created by you - our volunteers. We welcome all ideas and groups. You can be a student, a musician, an athlete, a neighbor, a food justice person, just someone wanting to do good, all welcome.
Please join us MLK weekend in activities that can make a difference for a child - and his or her family. Let's give a needy child a chance to seek to achieve his or her dreams.
Central Brooklyn has among the highest rates of childhood obesity, diabetes and heart disease and gun violence in New York City. Minority children and adults get preventable diseases and die young at twice the rate of other Americans - due to lack of access to fresh food and fitness and healthy options. Students face numerous obstacles in the way of academic achievement, a healthy life. liberty and happiness. You can change that - even with a few hours.
Our goal for the day? To publicize and raise funds for a school-run farmers market starting in March and connected activities like cooking classes and art - powered by local youth and residents - in a central Brooklyn food desert.
Volunteer opportunities:
TIMETABLE (subject to change)
9 am - 10 am - Set-up
10 am to 2 pm - Variety of activities on site at central Brooklyn school or schools
- Help run the talent show
- Make art, signs and posters with youth to carry for the march
- Lead any activity - music, arts or fitness workshops with youth
- Make a delicious healthy soup or snack for our marchers and help run a student-run farmers, nutritious snack market before the walk
- Help serve healthy snacks and drinks to give our marchers energy before the march
- Help register
Before MLK weekend - help us organize and advertise the event.
ALL WELCOME, ALL AGES - EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO GIVE.
Contact us at info@seedsinthemiddle.org
TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF AND WHAT YOU CAN DO!
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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
PS 284213 Osborn StreetBrownsvilleBrooklyn, NY 11212
DATE POSTED
December 11, 2018
SKILLS
- Tutoring
- Cooking / Catering
- Visual Arts
- Music Arts
- Youth Services
- Sports Coaching
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- hours flexible that day
- Be reliable. All ages welcome. Offer any skill. Specify hours you can come. Send resume or biobio.<