This post originally appeared on Jewish Exponent on November 26, 2013

By jelkin

When Binah Malka Stinnett forgot her lunch one day while volunteering at a Boys and Girls Club in North Philadelphia, she stopped at a small grocery store in search of ingredients for a meal, but the business had little besides junk food. She ended up paying $3 for a banana and a bag of plantain chips. The lack of access to affordable, healthy food in the low-income area — a situation that sociologists describe as a “food desert” — is one of the issues Stinnett hopes to address by arranging dinners for teens who come to the club after school.

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