Ellery's Bat Mitzvah Project

Hi Everyone,

For my Bat Mitzvah Project, I have decided to donate to City Harvest! City Harvest is a non-profit organization that rescues and gives food to New Yorkers that need a little extra help. City Harvest started when they realized that there was a lot of uneaten food and even more food-insecure New Yorkers. Since then, City Harvest has rescued over 950 million pounds of food to help New Yorkers.

This cause is important to me for two reasons.

One of the reasons this is important to me is because of how food waste affects the Earth. When we waste food, we aren't just wasting the food, but we are wasting the resources that made it. Each year the US wastes 108 billion pounds of food, which equals 130 billion meals and 480 billion dollars of food that were thrown away. And once the food is in the landfill, it rots away and creates methane, a very harmful gas to the environment. This adds up to a heavy carbon footprint and detrimental results for the Earth.

The second reason that is important to me is because of how the pandemic has affected the homeless population. As some of you might know, I have taken the subway to and from school every single day for probably the last seven years. And the increase of homeless people on the subway due to the pandemic is very sad. Now by donating, it probably won't give the homeless people a home, but at least it will help City Harvest to continue giving healthy and nutritious food to the homeless and food-insecure New Yorkers.

Thank You,

Ellery