Harlem Grown的创始人兼执行董事Tony Hillery将在纽约市食品坦克峰会上发表讲话,“w88优德老虎机平台专注于粮食损失和食物浪费”将于2017年9月13日与Rockefeller Foundation和Fink Family Foundation的支持,与Rethink Food Waster合作与Rethink Food Waster合作举行。
希勒(Hillery)成立了哈林(Harlem),以应对哈林公立小学生面临的健康和学术挑战。2011年,他开始在当地的一所小学志愿服务,并亲眼目睹了缺乏分配给学校的资源和学生不良的营养。他将一个废弃的花园(本质上是一个垃圾场)变成了一个繁荣的社区花园。希尔里(Hillery)与社区成员合作,清理垃圾,购买土壤,并为400名学生购买400个幼苗。随着学生的植物的成长,他们的饮食习惯也发生了变化,学生发展了领导和团队合作技能。第一个季节,他们生产了38磅的农产品。
到2016年,哈林(Harlem)成长为与六所当地哈林学校的合作伙伴,吸引了4,800多名青年,并种植了2200磅以上的水果和蔬菜,然后分配给整个社区中的家庭。今年,Harlem Grown将在第127街开设一个全新的农场,以继续吸引更多的Harlem青年,并激发他们过着健康和雄心勃勃的生活。
w88优德老虎机平台食品坦克与希勒里谈到了这些花园对哈林社区的集体影响。
w88优德老虎机平台食品坦克(FT):最初促使您参与工作的是什么?
托尼·希勒(Tony Hillery)(TH):我个人的激情之一是教育。我真的相信教育是摆脱许多情况的道路。一旦您接受了教育,无论您的社会经济地位如何,它都无法从您身上汲取。教育是出路。我一直在阅读有关城市中学校的信息,但我不明白我在阅读什么。对我来说,我们生活在该国最富有的城市之一,我们在教育方面差异如此之多,这没有意义。我真的不明白。我是一个表演我的人,所以我开始在哈林的一所小学做志愿者。就是这样。这就是促使其他一切的原因。
FT:是什么让您继续想参与这种工作?
TH:老实说,当我启动这个问题时,我没有计划 - 所有这些,请原谅,有机地来了。我最初的任务是与父母一起研究教育在打破贫困周期中的重要性,但我的重点很快转向了孩子。当我在学校里花了更多时间这个国家服务不足的社区的条件变得清晰。小时候,我曾经一直来到哈林。我们会来哈林;我们将在哈林聚会,但然后回家。您看到了,但是看不到。在这个国家,这是我们很多人。我们知道,但我们不知道。我在这里度过的时间越多,问题就越明显。很快,它转移到了营养,食物获取和粮食正义上。我坚信贫困只是缺乏机会和缺乏机会。 In the schools where we work, there are no services. There’s no extracurriculars. There’s no art. Some of the schools don’t even have gyms or music. The children we serve come to school for reading, writing, and arithmetic as well as breakfast, lunch, and supper. They’re having their three meals in school, and yet they can’t even identify simple vegetables. It’s a huge disconnect. And that’s how this whole thing came to be.
FT:您认为与孩子一起工作是修复食品系统的最大机会之一吗?
TH:Absolutely. Early on when I first started this, I did like a lot of people did. I started working in the school, and as fate would have it, across the street was an abandoned community garden. I got the garden and made it a farm. After the first crop, I was sending the kids home with some kale and some chard, and the next day I would ask the children, ‘so how do you like that chard?’ They said, ‘I don’t know, my mother threw it away.’ So mom doesn’t know what it is or how to prepare it. This is part of the problem. A lot of us nonprofits miss the mark. We come into the community to teach that community or to show the community. If you think about how I started this conversation, that’s exactly what I did. I came into this community to teach parents the importance of education. Who am I to come into a community? I’m not from here, and I don’t live here. And if you think about it, that’s insulting on its face. I mean, I’m telling you basically, ‘you’re living wrong, I’m living right. Listen to me, I know better.’
FT:您是否从社区成员那里推迟了这一点?
TH:不,不是直接推回去,但是交付是不明智的。这不是你想的。这不是我的想法。我以为人们会很欢迎 - 哦,是的,告诉我,告诉我。’不,不,不是那样。人们会来的,他们会坐在那里,他们会听。但是他们听不到你。人们将参加这些研讨会和最终游戏的事物。什么是最终游戏?是一袋杂货吗?是礼品卡吗? They don’t hear, they’re not taking in what’s being provided. So quickly I pivoted; I focused on the children. We don’t come into the community. We become the community. We’re here seven days a week. We see these children every day, in school, after school, and on the weekends. And from that, through that consistency, we build relationships and trust that is unbelievable. And that’s our method. We went from showing children vegetables, and they’re like ‘what’s that?’ and ‘ew, ew, ew.’ To whatever we pick up and say ‘check this out, taste this,’ they’ll put it right in their mouth without questions and no apprehension at all. And if they do it, their peers do it. There’s a whole ring of trust we’ve created with our children. And it is like the ripple effect, they bring their siblings, they bring their mothers, they bring their friends. And that’s how we’re growing it from the bottom-up—literally grassroots, a bottom-up approach.
FT:因此,通过与孩子们合作,您能够影响整个社区吗?
TH:Absolutely. The population we serve is very, very challenged. The numbers move up and down, but overall, 80 percent of the children I serve are living in single parent households. Over 90 percent of my children live below the poverty line, 98 percent of our families are on food stamps, and 40 percent of the children we serve are homeless. That’s my population. So if you take a step back, nutrition is low on the list of priorities, if it’s on the list at all. We embrace the whole child. You can’t give a kid kale to take home when he doesn’t have a home or place to eat it.
FT:您所做的工作令人难以置信。您获得的最鼓舞人心的经历是什么?
TH:哦,天哪,每天都有很多。那就是与孩子一起工作的美。孩子是如此真实。没有议程,也没有伪造。您每天都从这些孩子那里得到未经过滤的真理。这就是使我们保持脚趾的原因。当我们刚开始时,我们正在与儿童一起工作,他们不仅没有吃任何绿色的东西,而且还不能识别番茄和胡萝卜以外的其他蔬菜。他们在西兰花上模糊,其他一切都是沙拉。他们没有吃沙拉。今天,没有沙拉就不会吃饭。 And don’t give them iceberg or romaine; they want other leafy greens. They love chard. They love arugula. They love spinach. To see the change in the children that started with me six years ago is just amazing.
FT:每个人都可以做的一件小事可以帮助使这种巨大的差异?
TH:意识到我们是变化。普通人想要做的事情往往会陷入中立。他们不知道如何进行,他们不知道如何采取下一步。我只是说,迈出一步。除了你,没有什么让你退缩。如果您看到不公正现象,如果看到问题,请尝试解决问题。就这么简单。我们很多人只是坐下来搏斗。只是参与其中,看看它去哪里。这不是工作;这是一种激情,做自己喜欢的事情不起作用。这不是赚钱的才能。任何人都可以赚钱。但是,谁能改善生活?这就是我们必须问自己的。谁能做到?这就是我们在这里做的。哦,我的天哪,这是如此有意义。每天比下一个更好。
FT:您还有其他想和我们分享的东西吗?
TH:我必须说,我的组织的名称是哈林人的成长,但是这个问题并不是哈林的独特之处。这不是黑色,白色或棕色。这很糟糕。这是一个贫困问题。我在全国各地讲话。我看到贫穷使我的孩子看起来很富有。您会看到相同的景观。您会看到数英里的快餐店。最接近的超市是九,十英里外,没有人有汽车。它与哈林(Harlem)的景观相同,与路易斯安那州的巴约(Bayou)或西弗吉尼亚州(Bayou)相同。 You see the same exact thing: lack of access, lack of opportunity, and lack of education. Our children eat badly because it’s close, it’s cheap, and it’s convenient. In six years of doing this work, I have yet to meet a mother who would not want three organic meals of healthy, fresh vegetables and food for their kids. But you can’t afford it, and you can’t get it. Food is not optional. You have to eat. And if there’s a bodega on every corner selling cheap, processed food, that’s where they go. We have these catch phrases. We always say, ‘children are our future,’ and if that’s true, we really have to do something for these children.
Hillery recently received a CNN Hero award. Read about it这里。
这次采访已被编辑,以进行长度和清晰度。
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