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.