Brownsville Solar Community Fridge
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We are Anna Tsomo and Gabriel Jamison environmental activists, community organizers, and members of the Brownsville Residents Green Committee. We fight to protect our community, and we want to ensure that we keep our community healthy. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic that disproportionately affects Brownsville, we also see our community suffering from the ongoing issues of food apartheid, poor air quality, and food insecurity.
Brownsville does not have the luxury to sit on these inequities. With a bodega to grocery store ratio of 15:1 and an unhealthy air quality of 0.8 particulate matter per cubic square inch, our community is one of the highest polluted districts within NYC, accounts for more than double the rate of NYC’s child asthma emergency visits, and has 2X the rate of avoidable hospitalizations amongst children. That’s why we need solutions in our community that are proactive in addressing the issues that jeopardize our ability to sustain ourselves.
Our Brownsville Solar Community Fridge Project aims to address food injustice and environmental health in Brownsville by creating a mutual aid resource of free food with renewable energy as its power source.
Since COVID-19’s outbreak, community fridges have been created across NYC as a grassroots solution to help keep New Yorkers fed during economic hardship. Our goal is to raise funds to give Brownsville the same opportunity. Donations will be used to purchase the supplies we need to make this a reality such as solar panels, inverters, batteries, and encasements. Your contributions will assist Brownsville in having access to aid and healthy food options for community members in need.
Please help us in sustaining our community and keeping it healthy.
(Gabriel Jamison and Anna Tsomo of the Brownsville Residents Green Committee are community organizers and environmental activists, who have been active in the fight to protect our communities from the North Brooklyn Pipeline. Gabriel is studying renewable development and Anna is studying public health.)
Brownsville does not have the luxury to sit on these inequities. With a bodega to grocery store ratio of 15:1 and an unhealthy air quality of 0.8 particulate matter per cubic square inch, our community is one of the highest polluted districts within NYC, accounts for more than double the rate of NYC’s child asthma emergency visits, and has 2X the rate of avoidable hospitalizations amongst children. That’s why we need solutions in our community that are proactive in addressing the issues that jeopardize our ability to sustain ourselves.
Our Brownsville Solar Community Fridge Project aims to address food injustice and environmental health in Brownsville by creating a mutual aid resource of free food with renewable energy as its power source.
Since COVID-19’s outbreak, community fridges have been created across NYC as a grassroots solution to help keep New Yorkers fed during economic hardship. Our goal is to raise funds to give Brownsville the same opportunity. Donations will be used to purchase the supplies we need to make this a reality such as solar panels, inverters, batteries, and encasements. Your contributions will assist Brownsville in having access to aid and healthy food options for community members in need.
Please help us in sustaining our community and keeping it healthy.
(Gabriel Jamison and Anna Tsomo of the Brownsville Residents Green Committee are community organizers and environmental activists, who have been active in the fight to protect our communities from the North Brooklyn Pipeline. Gabriel is studying renewable development and Anna is studying public health.)
Organizer
Anna Leidecker
Organizer
Brooklyn, NY