 People often ask me, but what if someone steals the food and then my only question is how can you steal something that's free? The free food fridge project is a community and mutual aid project to provide free food for folks in marginalized communities Having a project like this is providing those fresh and healthy foods that we all deserve to have it's our right to eat healthy It's our right to eat food from the earth like that's our natural born right and not having access to that when we just have You know stores with box food or non perishables that don't go bad for years at a time That's unhealthy for us as humans and we yet we should be replenishing ourselves and nourishing ourselves from the earth There's been a huge tidal wave of resources that are being redistributed into communities And I think that people are noticing that they have resources that they can give and that they can share And so it's been a spreading of the wealth and many different ways people are giving and wanting to donate to the fridge project having the resources of other people and being able to share those has been really helpful and so Giving those resources and then actually putting the fridge out and filling it People like oh, I get it and like it I can just I can just take food. I'm like, yeah, it's yours. It's ours So language that is used around Marginalized communities that don't have access to food are often called food deserts It just doesn't make sense the people who are here are experiencing a food apartheid There is a lack of resource There's a lack of food you can tell the difference in the streets in the different neighborhoods where the money is being put into the cities and where it's not and so it's systemic the way that people don't get food in these neighborhoods is A systemic problem that we need to help fix I believe that the fridge is helping combat the apartheid the food apartheid happening here because it is a Another resource in the very small neighborhood that it's in on this block alone. There are no grocery stores There are two corner stores and a liquor store and there's nowhere to get fresh food Not one single place For me this has been about reparations and reparations for the community at large and I thought how can we get Everybody on board together and so now we're creating partnerships There's creating just a bigger sense of community in a way that I don't think exists to be for and it's simply just a fridge People are now like how can we do this in our neighborhood? How can we keep making this happen? How can we keep filling the fridge? How can we help? I want people to feel that again It is their right to have free food and access to healthy and free food So creating this on a larger scale as well as creating more of these around the city What has been so astonishing to me is the fridge is emptied every single day and it's not someone coming and taking a bunch of food at Once it's many people coming up and taking just what they need and that's been a really beautiful thing to watch