Name: Theo Cornick

Social Justice Group: Access to Healthy Foods

Date of Fieldwork: February 2, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s): Kate Foley (The Food Trust Organization)

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?

 

On Wednesday, Feb 2, we met with Kate Foley from the Food Trust Organization. We talked about access to healthful and nutritious food around America. The Food Trusts’ goal is to put more access to healthy and nutritious food in areas that don’t have much food. We learned a lot about how they are achieving this goal of making access to healthy and nutritious food around America. The main areas they are working in are Philidelphia and Camden. They have goals for different states and different approaches to those certain states. This is important to our project because it gives us an idea one what is happening when it comes to access to healthful and nutritious food. The Food Trust has been a thing since 1992 and is still making lots happen in America.

Here is my personal reaction to this interview. We learned a lot of stuff about areas that don’t have access to healthy and nutritious food. This is a huge problem in America and I think that the Food Trust is doing a very good job with this issue. There are about Thirty-Eight Million people in America who don’t have access to healthy or nutritious food in America. The Food Trust has lots of goals in certain states but they work specialty in Philidelphia (where they’re located) and Camden, right across the river from Philadelphia. I really love what the Food Trust Organization is doing for this huge issue in America and I cant wait to see them grow more and help way more people.