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Food Corps
Food Corps is a year-long service program where members work through local community organization. Members deliver hands-on nutrition education, build and tend to local school gardens, and bring high-quality local food into public school cafeterias. The overall mission of Food Corps is to help youth build a relationship with healthy food.
Apart from this amazing experience, Food Corps benefits include:
- A $15,000 living allowance
- A $5,550 education award
- Student loan forbearance
- Health insurance
- Training and mentorship
Deadline: Applications begin to be accepted in Spring 2012.
Why I’m interested in this program:
It took me nearly a quarter of a century to stop and wonder how food affects me, animals, and the environment. Truth is, we’re all interconnected. When I became vegan a few months ago, I felt like I had discovered pieces of information that had been kept a secret from me and many other people in this world.
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The real world
I just can’t sleep. Part of me keeps second guessing myself and my decision to take this summer position for a nonprofit. I can’t help but think I’m not cut out for this. I told them the answers they wanted to hear in my phone interview. But I can only be myself in person. Fuck, I can’t eeeven be myself. I’m in a state of overwhelming anxiety about failing at my responsibilities. I’m on the national level here. Failure is not an option. Neither is backing out. I just don’t have confidence. Idk what happened with me. The coffee barely helps. Is it the detox from my alcohol consumption for the last two months? (-Not kidding) Am I in a state of shock from graduation and the expectations set before me?
I feel like a lost soul sitting in an office staring at a computer screen. When the day is over I just want this experience to be over as well, but with a product to show. 9-5, how do they do it?
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Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC: Do we, as a society, ignore the concept of living well when kids are most impressionable?
When do kids start mimicking family and friends and start forming lifelong habits? Almost immediately after birth.
Then why do we wait until middle school to introduce “Health” to the kids as part of a formal curriculum, that coincidentally, happens in a period when kids are just becoming…
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Public Health: According to CDC’s Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities,...
According to CDC’s Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, life expectancy and overall health have improved for most Americans in recent years, but not all Americans have benefited equally. CDC and its partners monitor trends in cancer incidence (diagnosis) and mortality (deaths) to…
