Trucks bring fresh food to the people who need it
By Diana Bravo Globe Correspondent,Updated May 9, 2021, 8:29 p.m.
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School buses generally ferry children, but Fresh Truck mobile markets carry something equally vital: fresh food.
Co-founder Josh Trautwein was working as a health educator at MGH Charlestown Healthcare Center when he heard from local families that it was difficult to shop for healthy food because the only local grocery store was shut down for a yearlong renovation. That inspired Trautwein to start About Fresh, which operates a program called Fresh Truck to bring affordable, healthy food into Boston communities that need it most.
AN inspiring young boy whose parents were told he would never be able to walk has completed a lengthy and testing challenge in aid of charity. George Frost, 14, who was diagnosed with incurable spina bifida shortly after being born, has just walked 62 miles on behalf of Great Ormond Street Hospital. The determined walker set-off at the start of March alongside mum Victoria Strickland, 38, of Walton, as part of the organisation’s national challenge. After covering various distances on different days, sometimes on his therapy bike, George has now finished the walk, raising more than £1,500 in the process. Proud mum Victoria said: “George is currently having intense physio at home with his physiotherapist because his legs are aching.
AN inspiring young boy whose parents were told he would never be able to walk has completed a lengthy and testing challenge in aid of charity. George Frost, 14, who was diagnosed with incurable spina bifida shortly after being born, has just walked 62 miles on behalf of Great Ormond Street Hospital. The determined walker set-off at the start of March alongside mum Victoria Strickland, 38, of Walton, as part of the organisation’s national challenge. After covering various distances on different days, sometimes on his therapy bike, George has now finished the walk, raising more than £1,500 in the process. Proud mum Victoria said: “George is currently having intense physio at home with his physiotherapist because his legs are aching.