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Organization:El Puente De Williamsburg

Project Name: Growing Justice/Cultivando Justicia

Project ID: 172

Neighborhood/Communities that the project will serve: CB Brooklyn 04 (Bushwick)

Borough: Brooklyn

Project Description:  Growing Justice/Cultivando Justicia will be a youth-led project based in two community gardens: Grove Street Garden in Bushwick and Espiritu Tierra Garden in the Southside of Williamsburg. This project aims to utilize El Puente’s two community gardens as safe and healing outdoor community spaces and sources of food cultivation, at a time when young people in our community desperately need both. While learning life skills, youth will experience the aspect of nurturing a garden that will contribute to supporting mental health, as well as creating a sense of purpose, hope, and pride as they grow food.

This program will allow youth to think critically of the various ways to help their own communities through the use of local community garden spaces.This program will also allow youth to think critically of the various ways to help their own communities through the use of local community garden spaces. We are thankful for having the opportunity to have the youth vote on these projects.

What Youth are saying about the organization: “El Puente is like a second home”

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