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Putting a taste of home into food bank boxes

October 14, 2020

Roxana Pardo Garcia knows food banks. As a kid, her family benefited from them, but with mixed feelings.

“They would give us stuff that we didn’t know what to do with,” she remembered. “And we were taking food from people who knew what to do with it.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/Roxana Pardo Garcia started Alimentando el Pueblo, a program that collects and distributes culturally relevant and familiar foods to families from Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. “This is an initiative that was created by the very community that it serves,” she says. “We have solutions to the problems that our communities are facing. All we need is infrastructure and capacity and funding and we’ll make it happen.” (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times) — Roxana Pardo Garcia started Alimentando el Pueblo, a program that collects and distributes culturally relevant and familiar foods to families from Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. “This is an initiative that was created by the very community that it serves,” she says. “We have solutions to the problems that our communities are facing. All we need is infrastructure and capacity and funding and we’ll make it happen.” (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

What they couldn’t use, they gave away, then got help from other people in their community, who shared their masa, beans, tortillas and spices.

“But you kind of starved

Concerns over Brexit and covid are putting pressure on the farming community’s mental health

October 10, 2020

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Nearly half of all calls made to its support helpline over the past four months have related to mental health, a farming help charity has reported.

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Pressures such as Brexit, extreme weather conditions and poor yields have impacted on farmer’s mental health

The data revealed to mark today’s World Mental Health Day and next week’s Ag Mental Health Week, by the Farming Community Network (FCN), said mental health is now the most common factor in calls from members of the farming community.

These included stress and anxiety caused by issues including financial concerns, family relationship problems, Brexit uncertainty and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Jude McCann, CEO of FCN, which runs the Farming Helpline, said the figures gave an “important insight” into the experiences of farmers throughout England and Wales

America’s racial reckoning is putting a spotlight on Black mental health

September 27, 2020

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As a child, Reginald Howard struggled with destructive visions, moments where he imagined destroying the shelves at the corner store or pushing another child down, but when he tried to identify what was happening, his mother attributed it to his “Howard blood.”

“At that point, I probably should have been in therapy but because there’s such a stigma behind therapy in the Black community, and around the world but I’ll start within my community, I really didn’t get the help that I needed,” Howard said.

His father also struggled with mental illness, a situation that led Howard’s grandmother to refer to him and his sister as “demon children.”

Howard’s mental health went unaddressed as a child and he continued to struggle with mental illness into adulthood, which led to a crisis point in 2011.

Out of work at 20 years old, he learned his now-fiancé was pregnant. The anxiety of

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Nearly half of all calls made to its support helpline over the past four months have related to mental health, a farming help charity has reported.

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