Introduction ✰
The Food Equity Project was a project that gave us students the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from various food & health related organizations all over San Diego. This project that allowed us to develop a better insight on food disparities & how these organizations work their way to alleviate the number of issues relating to that. We were able to go on fieldtrips to assist our partner organization and even looked at a huge amount of data they had gathered over the years. With this, we graphed many charts and interpreted what everything had all meant in terms of people's accessibility to health and food.
Research & Data ✰
The data we had recieved from our respective partner organization (mine was UCSD Center for Community Health) allowed us to fully comprehend just how vast this issue of health & food disparities effects so many people nationwide.
After studying the data spreadsheet all semester, we were shocked to see that there was such high population low access to grocery stores, and it only increased through the years. |
Quality of Work ✰
While working on the data analysis section of the project, my group and I had begun to understand the troubling issue at hand. When we first started out, we assumed our partner organization did simple things for communities such as donations, food drives, community gardens, etc... But after reading more in depth about what UCSD CCH actually does for varying communities, plus the data we had recieved, it introduced to us issues we've never really looked at before. Needless to say it was definitely surprising.
Reflection & Improvement ✰
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Key Moment ✰
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In regard to the overall project, I'm mostly proud of being able to get everything done on time. I was worried my group & I wouldn't be able to finish our research paper that we hadn't worked on as much as we should have. I did my best to put all our work together for our final assignment to ensure the best grade possible for my group. I am now aware that there are many more limitations in food and health accessibility than i had previously thought, and even though I didn't learn many skills throughout the project, I'm glad to say I was able to remain stress-free the entire time. If I were to do this project again though, I'd make sure to have trips planned out as well as finish our work on time instead of pushing it all before the deadline.
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One key moment in this project was when my group and another had went to the UCSD campus and not the UCSD Center for Community health. I was a bit surprised to learn that they were in different places, but it was too late as we had already spent a few hours at the university. We got off one bus stop too early and had to walk the rest of the way, and by the time we had reached the campus, we were all very hungry. So we went off to spend almost an hour at the cafeteria eating until we shifted our direction and interest at a pool table in the area (and by "we" I mean my group since I was only following along). My group had played a few rounds until they came to the conclusion that we had been at the wrong place the entire time and had missed our scheduled meeting with our organization partner.
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Presentation ✰
This is the slideshow we had presented at our exhibition. We were able to discuss and share information among our group with adults viewing and asking us questions to answer after the presentation.
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