Marc Bacani – Capital Cause Young Philanthropist – Produces A Food Desert Video With Clint Smith
(March 28, 2013) Marc Bacani, Capital Cause Young Philanthropist, and another young Changemaker, Clint Smith, produced a video detailing the negative effects that food deserts have on low-income communities in the Washington, DC area.
As a teacher, Clint Smith sees how the daily battles we fight in public health, education, housing, and poverty are so deeply connected. In DC, Wards 7 and 8, which have the District’s highest poverty rates, also have the city’s highest obesity rates. What his students do or don’t eat affects how they are able to perform when they come to his class. Where grocery stores do or don’t decide to build affects the health of his students and their families.
In the video “Place Matters,” Clint Smith uses his students’ personal experiences to take viewers through the harsh reality of living without access to grocery stores and healthy food options.