A Plan for Food Self-Sufficiency

This project will focus on three major issues in the neighbourhood:

• Food security
• Academic success
• Pre-employability

The project has four goals:

Provide neighbourhood food initiatives with fresh fruit and vegetables

A 1st productive educational garden is set up in the schoolyard of École Louis-Joseph-Papineau (1,260 ft2 of crops). 50 kg of vegetables have been harvested.

70 educational activities about agriculture were organized for 18 different groups.

The community is now creating a 2nd garden that will be 4,200 ft2, and 20% will be dedicated to neighbourhood residents.

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Provide access to an annual reserve of fruits and vegetables

A feasibility study for the recovery and processing of fresh fruits and vegetables is underway.

Partnerships have been created for a pilot project to recover fruits and vegetables.

An internship program in food processing will soon start thanks to help from stakeholders who work in academic success and pre-employability.

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Promote the academic success of youth enrolled in the regular program of École Louis-Joseph-Papineau

Workshops have been designed and run for students at the school.

For example, the children have designed garden plans or studied issues related to food justice and local farming.

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Help vulnerable people become socially included and go back to work

Other groups have also invested in Les jardins des Patriotes, including youth in the Créneau program of the Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi.

Students in Prework Training have developed their entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, patience, sense of responsibility, and ability to work in a group.

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