The Right Foot Project is a year long community change initiative aimed to help alleviate food insecurity in youth populations. The Project is based out of the Leadership Program at the University of Denver. In order to help empower our community, we created strong, local partnerships with Thomas Jefferson High School and The Conscious Alliance- and ensured that our community would continue to find empowerment in each other.
What is food insecurity?
Food insecurity is defined as the condition of not having access to sufficient food, or food of adequate quality, to meet one's basic needs. However, this goes even further. Food insecurity is not only a lack of access to food but a lack of access to good and nutritious meals. When addressing food insecurity, this can often be forgotten, but it is detrimental that at-risk communities are receiving healthy meals.
The Right Foot Project was funded by DU Grand Challenges and The Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning