Nutrition is an important part of wellness and goes hand-in-hand with exercise. According to this article about a grocer who started a faith-based nonprofit, Harvest Community Charities, to combat food deserts, nutrition is also a community effort and an important part of overall community wellness. There is also a spiritual element in the enterprise.
Main point: “We’re trying to eliminate food deserts in the state, reduce food hardships and see folks saved,” Campbell said. “We want to bring them in, feed them, organize them into churches and establish relationships that make all the difference.”
Key points:
- "Food deserts are low-income communities without ready access to healthy and affordable food."
- "It [Harvest Community Charities] doesn’t work with donated food — it seeks to build up ways for a community to access and afford healthy, nutritious food directly from grocery suppliers."
- “What we do is not a giveaway; it’s a long-term, sustainable program to get good quality food into a community.”
- "Harris said at the end of the day, it’s about meeting people at their place of need, both with accessible food and the love of Christ and even with help finding a job so they can better afford food in the future."
The overall impact appears to be in mobilizing local churches to partner with the rest of the community. Stop listening
