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Start Date & Time
March 21, 2009
All day event.

End Date & Time
March 21, 2009
All day event.

Location
Online.

Event Cost
FREE

Event URL
http://www.mealexchange.com/...

RSVP Info
Name: Monica Or Leisha
E-mail: stomachthis@mealexchange.com

Registration Deadline
March 14, 2009

Categories
Health
Education

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Stomach This! 2.7 million Canadians are food insecure.

Food security: exists when everyone has access to sufficient and nutritious
food to meet their needs for a healthy life.


Do you think everyone in your community has access to healthy food?
Is food a right or a privilege?
Do you think about where your food comes from?
Want to work with other students and the community?


APPLY NOW to become a trained peer educator on food security in your
community.

When: Saturday, March 21st 9:30-5
Where: Downtown Toronto
Who: 20 selected youth (aged 15-24) from in and around the GTA
What: Stomach This! - a workshop on food security

This event is FREE and includes a lunch (a limited number of travel
bursaries are available).


You will learn:

-The difference between hunger & food security

-The impacts and barriers of food security

-How to map where the food in your community comes from

-To understand policy and how different levels of government are organized

-How to TAKE ACTION by changing your own food choices and mobilizing your community to make change

-How to deliver your OWN workshop

Register by sending an e-mail to stomachthis@mealexchange.com and briefly
tell us:

Why access to nutritious food for everyone is important to you and how you will use this workshop to make change







People Attending People Attending (2)

Alenwi
Alenwi


Mohamed Elkashash
Mohamed Elkashash



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Food4Health
Food – from what we eat to how we eat to the way its produced, marketed and disposed of – plays a vital role in sustaining life and promoting health and wellbeing. At the same time, what we eat can contribute to many of the leading causes of chronic disease and illness. Our project aims to...