DTLR-Growing Freedom Project

GROWING FREEDOM PROJECT

DTLR Community Outreach partnered with the Down North Foundation to launch The Growing Freedom Project for Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Services Center (PJJSC). We are excited for this partnership to provide opportunities for youth at the PJJSC, as part of its Dare to Live Right community initiative. This project perfectly aligns with our Education, Health, and Activism pillars. It aims to transform unused parcels of land into urban farms while educating youth at the PJJSC about sustainability, and how to garden, harvest and cook the produce they grow themselves.

As part of our Dare To Live Right Mission, DTLR strongly believes in providing these youths with unique skills and more opportunities they can leverage once they return to society. We’re honored to partner with the Down North Foundation to launch this incredible project, which we know will help hundreds of students learn the importance of growing and cooking their own produce.

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THE DOWN NORTH FOUNDATION ULTIMATELY IS ABOUT EMPOWERING URBAN COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN

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FOUNDER, MUHAMMAD ABDUL-HADI

GROWING FREEDOM PROJECT

The Down North Foundation’s mission is grounded in the idea of creating opportunities and initiatives that focus on empowering the existing community to be a part of the change.

The Growing Freedom Project will be supported by a collective of local community activists, academics, and Philadelphia business leaders. “The Down North Foundation ultimately is about empowering urban communities that have been forgotten,” says Founder, Muhammad Abdul-Hadi. “We believe change happens at the community level and requires imagination and reconstruction, and we’re excited to be able to put our ideas and plans into practice to achieve the creation of safe, inclusive community-centered places – plot by plot.” The youth that benefits from this project will learn the science of growing and sustaining their own food while learning a culinary curriculum that will make their transition into the workforce a little easier.