Success Stories
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“...As a cultivating group we would like to have food for thought. Our thoughts will change for the better within our lives and community, and in doing so we would like to voice and express our creative minds.”
— 2009 Junior Youth Intern
Project Profile
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Our project will cultivate creative arts with the youth who serve our organization as farmers, gardeners, and interns in our summer Cultivting Youth Leadership Program. The CYL Program has been a combination of growing and harvesting food at our farm space and community gardens, in-class horticultural training, Afrikan studies and life skills, volunteering and community engagement, cooking, and field trips.
FoodShare and the Afri-Can Food Basket are working together to generate good Food 4 Thought. The Afri-Can FoodBasket is supported by FoodShare in generating the Food 4 Thought Program, which is an extension of AFB's Cultivating Youth Leadership (CYL) Program. The CYL Program encourages creativity within youth (aged 16 - 23) and educates them as farmers, gardeners and community developers. Youth in our CYL Program experience a combination of growing and harvesting food at our farm space and community gardens, in-class horticultural training, African studies and life skills, volunteering and community engagement, cooking, and field trips
Thanks to your support, we have an opportunity to strengthen our engagement with youth all year round, and continue to provide challenging opportunities for CYL youth and peers in the community. Also, in order for us to continue to grow innovative strategies in food security, we are expanding our focus and incorporate youth in decision making, program development and in hiring our younger staff members.
In our story, our greatest strengths as an organizaton have stemmed from serving children and youth of all ages. Our project will cultivate creative arts with youth (aged 16 - 23) who serve the organization as farmers, gardeners, and interns in community development, in our summer Cultivting Youth Leadership Program.
In the past three years, the CYL Program has been a combination of growing and harvesting food at our farm space and community gardens, in-class horticultural training, Afrikan studies and life skills, volunteering and community engagement, cooking, and field trips.
The money we raised will be shared between the cooking and music components of Food 4 Thought. Thank you to everyone that donated, it means the world to us. Your small change will make a big difference.
The Afri-Can FoodBasket is a non-profit community food security (CFS) movement that is committed to meeting the nutrition, health and employment needs of members of the African Canadian community, in particular, those who are economically and socially vulnerable. Through community food security, leadership development and collaborative partnerships, the Afri-Can FoodBasket will endeavor to advance the interests of the community in these areas. The Afri-Can FoodBasket is partnered with FoodShare on this project. FoodShare tries to take a multifaceted, innovative and long-term approach to hunger and food issues. This means that we're involved in diverse actions: grassroots program delivery, advocacy for social assistance reform, job creation and training, nutrition education, farmland preservation and campaigns for comprehensive food labelling are just a few examples of the areas we work in.
