Organic veggies and inspiring students

Two students from my Applied Global Development and Public Health class organized a trip to an organic farm on Chongming Island this past weekend. What a wonderful day! The girls have created a partnership with a local school (the students at the school are mostly children of migrant workers) where they are delivering organic veggies to the school on a bi-weekly basis to augment the very simple lunch program. These veggies would normally be plowed under because they are considered unfit for market (maybe they're too small, or have minor blemishes). Rather than waste this nutritious and delicious food, the girls came up with the idea of the school partnership; they organized Saturday's trip as a way to fund the transportation of the vegetables to the school, and raised enough money to pay for deliveries for a whole year. How awesome is that? I am so proud of these two and the work they are doing. They have embraced the idea of being a changemaker and are creating waves of positive change.