Six months after a huge blaze destroyed several buildings, the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp announced a nearly $4 million rebuilding plan Wednesday. “It’ll be an updated and expanded program facility. It will give a new home to the beloved program areas that were lost; arts and crafts, wood shop and cooking zone program …
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On Pine Ridge Reservation, a Garden Helps Replace an 80-mile Grocery Trip
As the COVID-19 pandemic heightened food insecurity nationally, home gardens allowed Medicine Root participants to have some control over their food supply and to help community members in need. Located in one of the nation’s most impoverished counties, the unemployment, hunger, and housing instability that have made headlines nationwide during the pandemic have persisted in Pine …
Podcast: Newman’s Own Foundation with Miriam Nelson
On The Give Back Model, Miriam shares her academic background, her work around nutrition and women’s health, and how she got involved with the Newman’s Own Foundation. She talks about the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, which was founded by Paul Newman in 1988, and gives seriously ill children the opportunity to experience summer …
Op-ed: Our Shot at Creating Hunger Free Schools
Times of crisis create opportunities to make real and lasting changes. COVID has given us a window through which to improve the lives of millions of children by offering healthy school meals to every one of them. …
Op-ed: The Pandemic Revealed Our Food System is Broken. We Can Fix It.
More than a quarter of families with children are food insecure, in part because our supply chains are too consolidated. There are better models. …
