TAKING BACK OUR COMMUNITIES! FOOD FIRST! SAINTJOHN
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This is our "TAKING BACK COMMUNITY IN SAINT JOHN NB! FOOD FIRST!"
FB group.
Where we talk more in depth in real time, you can DM me if you would like to ask any questions or just post to the group. It will eventually be the members of this group that decides who to donate our healthy food packages to.
I am specifically focused on fruits and vegetables for a few reasons. First being that it is what my passion revolves around.
Second is because food banks and other food initiatives have a hard time providing these items.
Third is simply because it is good for your body and mind and our kids need the edge in this world.
I am thinking of changing things up a bit this year.
Instead of giving our money to big chains I am going to partner with a 'food purchasing club' in the city and we can feed 4 families for $100 instead of just 1.
This is what they are offering, and it blew me away.
The $25 list is in addition to the first list of items.
Will be messaging [email redacted]
(If you want to see photos from last year then check out our updates.)
Ladies and Gentlemen of the WORLD. This World we live in is a very unhealthy one. Physically and Mentally. I have a 3 step plan to change this before I die. I am 33 years old and before I die, the world will be much healthier with your help.
Myself and my wife are a "low-income" family with 3 small children of our own and we understand the struggle. We feel this is what we are meant to do, at least for now, to help.
Especially as nobody else is tackling the issue from my perspective. Not many others seem to believe that healthy food grown from our land is a basic human right and not a privilege. This is what I intend to change.
I live in Saint John NB, Canada. I believe if every family has access to free healthy food, this will help communities more than you could ever imagine in ways that will ripple into every aspect of life and living.
My core belief system tells me that basic needs should have never been tethered to a free market system and that your government should provide basic human needs. Like healthy food, housing, and energy for heat and lights.
We have been conditioned to think this is a lot to ask for, and it is nowhere near too much.
My passion and focus is healthy food you can grow from our land and we NEED for proper physical and mental development and sustainability.
In a better world, mothers and fathers could spend less time working to put unhealthy food on the table and more time at home with their children including the free healthy meals your can prepare together.
Provided by the land we live on by the people we elect to take care of our basic needs.
Less hungry and more healthy children = stronger families. Healthy food to feed their brains and body for healthy development.
Less crimes of necessity = stronger communities.
Less medical issues will decrease the burden on our medical system. Heart disease and diabetes cut in half and the Obesity epidemic will be stopped in its tracks.
These are only but a few positive outcomes from a shift in societal views on the importance of our food. And many more interconnecting issues reduced by a healthy diet.
We have lost our connection from food to a healthy, happy life. For this reason our planet is plagued. Plagued with weak bodies and weak minds. The nutrients in fruits and vegetables are the exact nutrients we need to thrive as human beings. To become what we were born to.
We have also lost our connection to our communities. A community with strong, healthy bodies and minds is a community we do not recognize so we cant even really imagine all the positive ripple effects we might see come of this revolution.
We can do this ourselves if we actually wanted to, which I do.
Step 1 of this plan is to make a name for ourselves.
The first step in my plan is ask for small donations until I reach $25.
This group presently has over 250 members from the Saint john area alone and $1 each is the idea.
$1 a month from our Saint john members will feed 10 families in that month and that is better then 0.
More members and the odd $2 donation will only help more people.
I want as many people in the community as possible to donate small and feel the change they have made in their own backyard. It is a powerful feeling.
After I reach the $25 goal, I will put in an order to our local bulk purchasing club, organized by horizon Health, for the largest package of fruits and vegetables valued at almost $50.
The recipient of this package will be notified and when the packages are ready then myself or one of my volunteers will pick up and deliver the package
I am starting a FB group to help find the most in need in my community and a collection of like minds.
FOR EVERY $25 DONATION A LOW INCOME FAMILY WILL GET FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Follow this group for STEP 2:
This is my backyard farmers group.
This is my grow tower business page.
And this group I have built to help explain why our societal view on healthy food and where it comes from needs to change yesterday.
Step 3 gets complicated but the idea is to grow large enough to affect policies surrounding the food we need to thrive as human beings and will go into more details later.
This is not something I can do entirely on my own. This is why I am calling everyone who can not donate to please really think about what I am trying to do here and even start your own gofundme in your own communities for this reason.
Or join me! I have unlimited passion for this and no shortage of ideas. We will change the world together and make free healthy food a right of every man, woman, and child on this planet.
I am not only looking for money donations but email me and ask questions, offer advice or assistance. Ask how else you could help. Run some of your own ideas by me and I will listen. I am a real person helping real people, I am not a business or organization. Message me as much as you would like in reference to us changing the world.
FOR EVERY $25 DONATION A LOW INCOME FAMILY WILL GET FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
https://www.facebook.com/michael.sheehan.549221 This is my personal FB account.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/759913644613789 This is our "ITS TIME TO CHANGE THE WORLD" FB group.
These are other groups I made for the Saint John community if you want to check them out please do.
'Support Saint John group' for non profits and community initiatives.
'Buy local group' for small local businesses to advertise in.
Co-organizers (3)
Michael Sheehan
Organizer
Saint John, NB
Jess Sheehan
Co-organizer
Kaitlin Skelding
Co-organizer