2nd Chances Need Roots
- In which borough should your idea take place?
- Staten Island
- Do you have a specific neighborhood(s) in mind?
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St. George; Port Richmond; Tysens Park; Castleton; particularly low income neighborhoods.
- Which audience(s) does your idea help? Select as many as apply.
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YouthParentsJustice impacted individualsLow income individualsOlder adultsUnemployed individualsPeople with disabilities
- Describe the challenge you want to address:
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incarcerated people can struggle to find gainful employment which makes crime as a means to an end. my solutioncan mitigate this problem while helping those suffering from hunger and poverty
- Describe your idea and approach to address the challenge:
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create a garden which employs encarcerated people at $25 per hour for 10 hours per week. the food they produce will be given to a food truck which will also be purchased using these funds (50k per) the food truck will travel to various places once a week to feed people hot/healthy food which uses organic food which is produced by our sponsored encarcerated staff.
- Write the zipcode that best represents your New York City community:
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10310
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