Fresh Fruits Now!
To Support Neighbor to Neighbor
Buy oranges, apples and bananas and they will be delivered for you!
Mel Barranco is attending the Curriculum for Living Program at Landmark Worldwide in New York City. He already has completed the Forum and the Advanced and is currently finishing the final part of the series, the Self-Expression and Leadership Program (SELP). Part of the SELP curriculum requirment is doing a community project. Mel's idea of a community project, called Fresh Fruit Now! is to partner with Neighbor to Neighbor in Greenwich, CT in providing healthier food options for their local clients. Through this project, Mel would like to create the possiblity of love and compassion for the Neighbor to Neighbor clients.
Each month, Neighbor to Neighbor provides enough free food to prepare over 25,000 nutritious meals for needy families in Greenwich.
Neighbor to Neighbor gave out 313,000 meals last year! 129,000 of those meals went to children. 40% of the food is donated by individuals and via organized food drives.
Since 1980, the relative cost of nutrient-rich food has increased by 40% while, during the same period, the relative cost of low-nutrient "junk" food has decreased by the same amount. Neighbor to Neighbor is based in Greenwich and improves lives by providing for the exchange of food, clothing and basic living essentials in an atmosphere of kindness and respect. Fresh produce is expensive and therefore out of reach of many Americans. Yet fresh produce is a cornerstone of a healthy diet and a strong focus on Neighbor to Neighbor's food pantry.
Mel's Fresh Fruit Now! four week campaign runs until October 15, 2016. The goal of this project is to raise 500 pounds of Fresh Produce - bananas, apples, oranges - to provide Neighbor to Neighbor clients healthier food choices.
It's easy to participate, select the Donate button. Pick out and purchase the healthy food items you would like to donate. The food will be delivered for you to Neighbor to Neighbor. You will receive a tax receipt via email for your donation.
Thanks for your support!
Contributions
Sabreen Kabeer donated: 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag, 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag
Way to Go MEL!!!!
zahra sbeih donated: 2 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag, 2 Apples, one 5 lb. bag
michelle gonyea donated: 2 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches
Kim Aanonsen donated: 2 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag
Good luck Mel!
Virgilio Zayas-Bazan donated: 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag
Mica Mapp donated: 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag
Wonderful job, Mel!!
Consider me ENROLLED and REGISTERED!!
Mica
Mark Berman donated: 3 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches, 4 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag, 3 Apples, one 5 lb. bag
Katherine Dean donated: 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag, 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches
This is awesome Mel. Terrific job paying it forward!
Seung Hye Choi donated: 2 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches
Hope your good deed helps many more in needs!
Kathleen Hener donated: 3 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 2 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag
good luck Mel. here's more fruit for your goal. you'll get there.
A generous contributor donated: 2 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches
Genara D Sims donated: 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag, 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches, 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag
Marie Barranco donated: 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag
Jesse Leddick donated: 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches
Eva Barranco donated: 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches
Virgilio Zayas-Bazan donated: 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches, 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag
Patricia Freeman donated: 2 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag, 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag
Fresh fruit is such a treat! Thank you Mel!
Joel Fivis donated: 3 Apples, one 5 lb. bag
Anne Lopez-Vito donated: 3 Apples, one 5 lb. bag
An apple a day keeps the MD away.
APRIL TAYLOR donated: 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches, 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag
randy hao donated: 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches, 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag
Way to go, Mel
abdellah essoussi donated: 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag, 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches, 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag
Thank you for letting me be part of this
Tatiana Nemirovskaya donated: 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag
Lindsay DeNicola donated: 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches
Patricia Sims donated: 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag
Patricia Sims donated: 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag
Nancy Risdon donated: 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag
Jodi Jaramillo donated: 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches
A generous contributor donated: 1 Oranges - one 10 lb. bag, 1 Bananas,one 2 pak of 5 lb. bunches, 1 Apples, one 5 lb. bag