Activists reframe food inequity as Food Apartheid to find new solutions [Video]
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Activists reframe food inequity as Food Apartheid to find new solutions [Video]

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Lindsey Ford

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Fillmore Street in Colorado Springs is lined with fast food options. Patience Kabwasa, the executive director of Colorado Springs’ Food To Power, says “Food Apartheid” is an apt term to describe the experience and consequences of having inadequate access to nutritious food.

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COLORADO SPRINGS,Colo. — Food justice is a passion for Patience Kabwasa, the executive director for Food To Power, a nonprofit that specializes in recovering excess food and operates a no-cost grocery distribution in Colorado Springs.

Kabwasa works in the Hillside neighborhood that borders the Middle Shooks Run neighborhood and the downtown neighborhoods of Colorado Springs. These areas are classified as a “food deserts,” where neighbors struggle to access fresh produce, accourding to the Environmental Research Institute.

Kabwasa lives near Palmer Park, where the closest grocery store is a Walmart, a little more than …

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