Community Garden Project

Our story begins with a student who arrives to school at 7:00 am for breakfast, then at 12:00 noon he eats lunch. Because both parents are working there is little and or no healthy food for him to eat. He may eat day old fries or a half bag of chips. Most likely he will just go to sleep hungry. This is a story all to common with the youth in this community. Most of the students are latchkey students they go home to no one and unhealthy food. The Community Kitchen educate and provides healthy meals to the youth in the community. We have a team of volunteers that teaches the students how prepare the food then they bring it home to their family. Our program have been successful for 3 years, we feed over 3,000 students. Our next project is developing a

Challenge the youth how to make appropriate food choices

Engages the parents, teachers and community businesses

About 400,000 kids eat little or unhealthy in North Dallas. We want to change that by launching the Community Garden project.

According to the Center for Disease Control(CDC) Percentage of children 2-5 years 9.4% ;6-11 17.4%;12-19 20.6% percentage of adults over 20 years with obesity 37.9% and adults with obesity and over weight 70.7%

This is the reason why we decided to develop the Community Garden. If we start educating the youth now when they are adults they may not be in that 70.7% percentile.

Goal:

Our goal is to raise funds needed to implement the Community Garden project. It will allow the Community Kitchen to provide meals and fresh produce to community members facing food inadequacies. We are asking for $15,000 . The project will fight obesity, reduce hunger and educate about food preparation. Also, the local community will have the opportunity to pick fresh fruits and vegetables from the garden. We have a 45 volunteers from different areas of expertise that will assist us with the