OverTown CookBook: Educating Youth On Healthy Cooking
My students need new cookware for us to begin the healthy cooking process. which will be beneficial for them to learn and cook healthy meals.
$956 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
All over the world, obesity is becoming a prominent part of our society. Obesity brings many different health risks with it; heart attacks, blood clots, kidney failure, and lung troubles. The Youth in Over Town are ready to put the fried chicken aside for a healthier alternative.
My students come from a very impoverished environment.
They often depend on what the government provides, or hustle the streets for what the world can provide. More often than that my students don't care to finish high school, the few that do, don't care enough, or don't have the funds to attend college. They sit around at home, eat the wrong things, and put their health at risk. Here at Booker T. Washington Senior High School, we try all that we can to get our students excited about school, we try to get them to believe in themselves and all they can accomplish, we even try to promote healthy eating/living. However as a school in the middle of the projects, we can only do so much, with the little we receive.
My Project
Over Town Cookbook is an After-School program that provides service learning to both the high school students as well as the college students who assist. We basically need an entire kitchen to help our students learn in the best way possible that healthy cooking is not just bland tasting food. We show them that substituting, unhealthy fats, and cooking oils, with a healthy alternative like; water or a teaspoon of virgin olive oil, and not putting such heavy doses of salt on meat, can change their lives completely.
If donations to our project come through, with the supplies we will have, we will be able to educate and demonstrate to this generation, the healthy ways of both eating, and cooking healthy food.
Due to the fact that the Over Town community is in the zip code that has the lowest per capita income in the state of Florida and 95% of the students at our school are on Free and Reduced Lunch, these supplies are desperately needed to further the goals of this program.
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