Fresh’n Focused Snack Program is a program that Get Real Get Raw (GRGR) offers to schools for their snack time. We supply the schools with an abundant supply of fresh fruit for their snack time. We like the snack time as opposed to supplementing meals because when the only food offered is fresh, real and raw fruit, it allows the children to experience and understand how good their body and mind feels when they feed themselves nutritiously. We want children to learn how to make good choices, and what good choices are, when it comes to food. We have had great success with this method of both educating and feeding the children. We provide schools with apples(either organic or local IPM), bananas, oranges, and melons in quantities that allow children to take as much fruit as they would like. We feel that there should never be a limit as to how much fruit a child should have. GRGR partners with Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia.
Get Real Get RAW Partners with Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia
Breakthrough is a six-year academic enrichment program that builds a path from middle school to college for low-income students from Philadelphia’s public schools. With three sites in Philadelphia, GRGR has introduced to the after school program at the St. Joseph’s University site its ‘Fresh ‘n Focused Snack Program,’ consisting of delicious fresh fruit. When the students arrive, they are presented with an abundant fresh fruit option instead of traditional snack food as a means of feeding the mind and body in a healthful way. The youngsters have already given a ‘thumbs up’ to Fresh ‘n Focused Snack Program’ and we look forward to expanding the program into the summer with the addition of a nutritional class!
GRGR partners with Philly Scholars
GRGR has also partnered with Philly Scholars to provide our “Fresh’n Focused Snack Program”. We currently work with two of the Philly Scholar schools in Philadelphia; Young Scholars, middle school, and Young Scholars Frederic Douglas Charter Schools, k-8. They prepare students to attend and succeed academically in the best high schools and colleges. Young Scholars provides students with a foundation of life skills required to become productive members of their communities. We provide these schools with an abundant supply of beautiful, healthy, fresh fruits for snacks during their afterschool programs. The children love the fruit and we encourage them to take as much as they like.