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People's Grocery is a community-based organization in West Oakland that develops creative solutions to the health, environmental and economic challenges our community faces every day. In West Oakland there are:
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30,000 Residents
53 Liquor Stores
13 Fast Food Restaurants
0 Grocery Stores
It's no wonder the #1 killer here is heart disease.
So what can we do? People's Grocery works with the community to develop a local food system that improves the quality of life for residents by providing quality jobs, better access to healthy foods, and improves the environment. We grow food at our farm and gardens, develop youth leaders and advocates through intensive training and employment, and create community run and youth run micro-enterprises to distribute the food.
People's Grocery runs 3 overlapping programs:
1) Community Outreach and Education: This team gets the word out about food justice and nutrition to the West Oakland community. We offer free nutritional cooking classes for residents, Peer 2 Peer workshops for youth, monthly grub parties, and more!
2) Urban Agriculture: This team gets down and dirty growing those fruits and veggies our community needs. The food goes directly to West Oakland residents- no middle man invovled.
3) Enterprise Development: This team creates innovative businesses that employ West Oakland youth and residents around healthy food. They've delivered the Mobile Market, a grocery store on wheels. They've delivered healthy snacks to schools. They're now delivering produce boxes to the community. And in 2009 they will respond to the call from West Oakland residents... a worker owned grocery store!