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Project AngelFaces is a system of programs creating sustainable social change. Our Mission is to create sustainable social change through programs that open access to healthful nutrition for all citizens, reduce local carbon footprint through urban organic gardening systems, increase quality of life for all citizens, and increase employment opportunities for vulnerable populations.
We are a multifaceted social service organization working to improve quality of life in our community by teaching organic gardening skills, and by providing fresh fruits and vegetables to our elders, youth, and other vulnerable citizens in need. At Project AngelFaces, we believe in the abundance in our world; there is more than enough for all citizens to have access to healthful nutrition to support healthy lives.
Project AngelFaces practices the art of sharing our valley’s bounty of fresh fruits and vegetables. We practice sustainable living through our programs. We teach organic gardening skills. There are currently four programs working to meet these goals within our organization.
(1) NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD HARVEST: Assisted by volunteers {the Host of Angels}, we collect local, neighborhood-grown fruits and vegetables and donate the harvest to existing social service providers who care for seniors and youth;
(2) COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAMS: Project AngelFaces creates original programs in support of vulnerable populations through organic gardening education. There are currently four projects in this program: the Gardens of Project AngelFaces at New Vista Ranch, CSN Cheyenne, and Garden Club Henderson Garden; and Garden Club at Whitney Recreation Center. The Gardens of Project AngelFaces teach organic gardening skills and grows food to share with vulnerable elders and youth. Garden Club is playful discovery of healthful nutrition for at-risk youth ages 6-12.
The premier program is created in cooperative collaboration with New Vista Community, a collective of high-functioning intellectually challenged individuals. The Organic Garden at The Ranch increases quality of life for this often stigmatized community by providing job skills training in organic gardening . The program will soon provide opportunities to earn income for participating residents of New Vista Ranch. Project AngelFaces also created Garden Club with the cooperation of Clark County Recreation Center at Whitney Recreation Center. At Garden Club Meetings, at-risk youth ages 6-12 learn about nutrition and organic gardening through playful discovery with healthful, locally grown and harvested fruits and vegetables.
(3) ORGANIC GARDENING SUPPORT SYSTEMS: This program provides a system for valley citizens, families, and businesses to collect non-animal organic matter from their kitchens, and turns it into valuable nutrition (compost) that nurtures our organic “poo-free” (we do not use any animal manures or biosolids containing soils) gardens. This program is also a seedling nursery for participating tribal gardeners, as well as a seed propagation source.
(4) URBAN TRIBAL GARDENS: Project AngelFaces provides consultation and management services to collectives of friends, neighbors, or members of a spiritual community, {a TRIBE}, who wish to install and tend an organic garden for the purpose of feeding their households. Participating Tribal Gardens agree to seed propagation and also to donate a minimum of 10% of their seasonal yield to the Neighborhood Fruit Harvest Program.
Project AngelFaces’ Vision sees societies with the infrastructure to practice diabetes prevention, and to prevent the wasteful use of local resources. We envision local communities working in cooperative collaboration to create this infrastructure of sustainability, and sharing the bounty of their harvests with those most vulnerable. We see a world in which diabetes strikes with equal measure, instead of targeting the poor in such drastic disproportion. Project AngelFaces envisions a world in which we make the most effective, efficient use of our fresh food and other resources, and in which sharing those resources with those in highest need is a way of life for every community.
When we consume locally grown food, we lessen the burden on the global community to provide for our needs. When we share what we have readily available to us, we increase our ability to be a healthier, happier citizenry. We welcome your participation in the systems of Project AngelFaces. We hope you will Join the Host of Angels, and Get Involved to Cultivate Hope for the Future (TM)!
If you have any interest in participating in any of the programs of Project AngelFaces, please contact the Director, Rhonda Killough, at:
rhondak@projectangelfaces.org, via cell: 702.460.9261, on Facebook at Project
AngelFaces, on Twitter: @RhondaKillough.
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