What is a foodcorps service member? FoodCorps Service Members are inpiduals generally between 18 and 30 years old, with backgrounds in agriculture, nutrition, health and food policy. They are paid a modest stipend ($15,000, health insurance, student loan forbearance, and a $5,500 Education Award) to perform a year of food and nutrition-related service inside local schools.What is foodcorps doing for kids? Children and adults who suffer from diet-related diseases score lower on tests, miss more days of school, advance less in their careers, and raise children who are likely to repeat the same cycle. Together with communities, FoodCorps serves to connect kids to healthy food in school.What makes foodcorps more impactful? We know that FoodCorps is stronger, more innovative and therefore more impactful when our service members represent a persity of perspectives and life experiences and feel empowered to raise their voices, offer opinions, and be engaged.
FoodCorps is a nationwide team of AmeriCorps leaders who connect kids to real food and help them grow up healthy. FoodCorps envisions a future in which all our nation’s children know what healthy food is, care where it comes from, and have access to it every day.
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