Public Health Director Dr. Dave Margolius understands it can be a challenge for some people to access fresh food and produce.
It involves fulfilling a new role, which is designed to address a serious problem health officials say needs to be addressed.
“Food banks help with hunger but what we need to break down the system. The system that they call food apartheid,” said Margolius.“The East Side of Cleveland predominantly is what people historically have called a food desert,” said Margolius.It’s called Rid-All Green Partnership, which is located in Cleveland’s Kinsman neighborhood.
Since then, Hester said he’s seen some growth as more grocery stores are opening and people are starting to do their own gardening. “It’s a big issue. It’s a city issue. It’s a county issue. It’s a state issue. It’s a national issue and it’s a global issue,” said Loiter Co-Founder, Ismail Samad
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