HONEYCOMB AT HOMEHealthy Food & Basic Needs
Sustaining Healthy CommunitiesAll families need access to nutritious food and basic necessities to lead healthy and happy lives.
With nearly 25% of Chicago children living below the poverty line, many families struggle to make ends meet. From supporting local pantries and urban farms, to providing support for new moms, learn more about how your family can improve food and resource accessibility in Chicago with Honeycomb at Home: Healthy Food & Basic Needs
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Your gift today helps sustain Honeycomb at Home as a free public resource available to kids, families, and teachers during the COVID-19 crisis. Through engaging self-guided activities, kids learn social responsibility, empathy, and civic action. Lessons that last a lifetime.
Every $35 you donate mobilizes one new volunteer — $100 mobilizes a whole family.
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Grow Greatness
Food has the power to improve our neighborhood health and build community. The food we eat plays an important role in fortifying our community and our bodies, but fresh food is not always distributed equally. Urban farming is one way that communities are reclaiming our food system and providing healthy food to their neighborhoods and beyond.
Community in the Kitchen
We all need support from others to live happy and fruitful lives. Have you been baking at home? The Floured Apron is a job training bakery that helps provide women with professional training and supports them in finding jobs. Baking brings people together, and at Floured Apron, it helps women learn new skills, so they can support themselves and their families.
Nourish Neighbors
We're inviting your family to think about how we can support our communities through food. Mikel is a veteran and father experiencing food insecurity. While many are facing difficulties accessing food, as a city, we have an opportunity to rise up together and support our neighbors in need.
Food for Thought
We all have a right to access the food, water, and resources we need to survive and thrive. A food desert is a community where people have to travel over a half a mile to access fresh and nutritious food. Businesses like Barney’s New Life Health Foods are mobilizing to provide healthy options in communities with limited access to resources. We all can work together to make sure fresh food and resources are accessible for all.
Reframing Poverty
Our communities know what they need best. Mia Birdsong calls for a reclamation of the stories of marginalized communities. She quotes Desmond Tutu, who said, "my humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours; we belong to a bundle of life. We are all connected, in a community with the responsibility to care for one another."
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Healthy Food & Basic Needs
All families need access to nutritious food and basic necessities to lead healthy and happy lives. Learn more about how your family can improve food and resource accessibility in Chicago.
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