We want to give general health education to South Jamaica Housing residents who occupie over 1,000 apartments, whom are all low in-come families. The goal is to educate and bring a divided community together.
Leader
Devonna McCutcheon
Location
108st & 160th ave jamaica, NY 11433
South Jamaica Resident Green Committee hopes to raise health awareness and bring unity to our community. There is no selection for affordable natural vegetables, fruits or other healthier food products in our supermarkets. We will educate the residents through workshops on healthier living habits such as growing their own vegetables, recycling, knowledge on fitness and balanced diets, the effects of certain diseases related to food and most importantly, ingredients in disguise on food labels. The activities we have planned are to bring unity within the community by gathering all residents, other resident formed groups, Police department and fire department to be part of the festival. The activities are creative games that involve team building between residents and Police/Fire departments. We want to make the residents know the people who serve and fight for them.
We have assigned deadlines to all tasks to ensure that the workload is done in a timely manner and assigned members & volunteers can make meetings.
January / February
March / April
May / June
July
Our community deals with a high percentage of people with blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes. So many of our children, friends, family & neighbors are dealing with so many health issues that can be eliminated or maintained if they had access to better foods and education on farming. The seniors in this development need to know that we will bring their fresh produce to their doors if they can't come out. Our children will get to know the police officers better so they can go to them when in trouble instead of away from them.
This event will bring awareness to what resources are available within the development. By coming together as a community we can expand the farm and grow twice or triple the number of veggies we grew in spring/summer 2018. We can start to request healthier food in our supermarkets. We can combat obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure with fresh produce and healthier eating habits. Our mission is to just better our community by getting the information out to the residents and festivals have been a proven way to do exactly that in our society.