(23 Jul 2025)
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New York – 22 July 2025
1. Wide of people at a food box distribution site in New York run by Children’s Aid, a New York City nonprofit
2. Close of person picking up an ear of corn
3. A child reaching for a cherry
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Taisy Conk, Director of Food and Nutrition Program, Children’s Aid:
"Well, we are a part of a larger movement to bring local food into urban communities and Food Box is one piece of that because we source fruits and vegetables and some other items too from Upstate farms supporting New York state farmers and the local economy."
5. A man listening as a worker at a Food Box distribution site talks with him
6. Close of packing cherries into a bag
7. Wide of people at the Food Box distribution site
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Taisy Conk, Director of Food and Nutrition Program, Children’s Aid:
"Yeah, unfortunately in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill” Congress and the president passed it is completely eliminating our SNAP-Ed funding which Children’s Aid uses to support this program as well as all of our nutrition education work. So as of October 1st, that is entirely cut.”
9. Wide of Children’s Aid SNAP-Ed cooking class with children UPSOUND: “We talked about eating the rainbow. So, today we are going to make a lovely salad.”
10. Close of kids learning to cut fruit and vegetables
11. Wide of kids cut fruit and vegetables
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Taisy Conk, Director of Food and Nutrition Program, Children’s Aid:
"We’re hoping for roll over funding and just some other options or potentially for the state to step in, but as it is, we would not be able to operate the programming as we currently do it."
13. Close of sign explaining SNAP benefits and Health Bucks offered by Children’s Aid, a New York City nonprofit
14. Close of person holding SNAP benefit vouchers
15. Wide of people at the Food Box distribution site
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ericka Villegas, mother of three:
"I love that it’s one, it’s affordable, that it gives me access to sometimes fruits that I’m not able to find all the time in the local supermarkets, and that it also gives me like new ideas and like to cook and how to use like the new ingredients that I haven’t tried before."
17. Ericka Villegas holding her son
18. Close of sign advertising bicolor corn at 5 for $3
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Ericka Villegas, mother of three:
"Without it, I mean our food would increase. We don’t qualify for SNAP help but even then it is affordable enough that it helps us to keep our costs as low as we can."
20. Various of Carla Robles discussing recipes with workers at the Food Box distribution site
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Carla Robles, mother of four:
"What’s gonna happen to all of the people that cannot afford to get fresh fruits and vegetables? To me it’s just common sense, you know, it’s not a matter of if you’re this color or the other color. I feel like whoever is in the administration needs to look out for the people."
22. Various of person chopping peaches
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Carla Robles, mother of four:
"If this goes away then we the community is gonna lose. That’s what it is. There’s no weird complex science behind that. It’s hurting us."
24. Wide of worker discussing produce with customers
25. Close of person handing money to pay for the Food Box
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Lexi Paulino, expectant mother:
27. Wide of Lexi Paulino talking about the food box program UPSOUND: “It’s more than just the groceries. It’s also the information that they give you, too.”
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