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1 person is interested
Driver with vehicle! Help pick up/deliver fresh produce for kids in Brooklyn
ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle
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1 person is interested
Seeking a volunteer driver - with a car with a trunk - to help us pick and deliver fresh fruits and vegetables to schools and locations in Brooklyn - mainly downtown Brooklyn to central Brooklyn neighborhoods of Flatbush, Crown Heights, or Brownsville.
Hours can be flexible.
We run student-run Hip2B Healthy Markets in several schools, and we need help picking up produce. One market is on Tuesdays but we are expanding to other days and then possibly weekends in the spring.
This is a limited time commitment of just 2-4 hours one day a week.
We give community service and recommendation letters. You can also help us create gardens and Hip2B Healthy farmstands and bring fresh snacks to our children in sports recreational programs in Crown Heights. See bit.ly/seedssports19. We are trying to save money in transport.
See our Hip2B Healthy Markets on our Facebook pages - Seeds in the Middle
If this is something you can do, please email us at info@seedsinthemiddle.org and tell us what hours or days you are available.
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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
16 Court StreetBrooklyn, NY 11201
DATE POSTED
February 18, 2019
SKILLS
- Event Management
- Administrative Support
- Customer Service
- Food Delivery / Distribution
- Food Service
- Outdoor Recreation
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- 4 hours a week
- Be reliable,