by Ona Balkus, Operation Frontline DC Assistant Coordinator, Americorps VISTA Last week, the Washington Post ran a series of articles entitled: “Young Lives at Risk: Our Overweight Children”, highlighting the child obesity epidemic that is causing disease, and in some cases death, for many of our nation’s children. I was impressed and touched by the… Read more »
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Playing with our food!
by Becky Handforth, Operation Frontline DC Coordinator Last week we decided to mix up class a bit. Instead of planning recipes to teach the participants, we had the participants choose what they wanted to make. I collaborated with Kaitlin, our volunteer chef, to pick a variety of ingredients that would function for numerous recipes. The… Read more »
Navigating the sea of American food
by Ona Balkus Assistant Coordinator of Operation Frontline DC, Americorps VISTA Amid children running around our feet and three languages being spoken in this small living room turned classroom, we discuss with these mothers how they can feed their families and themselves better in a new country. At Parklawn Family Center, we are working with… Read more »
Our Film Debut!
by Ona Balkus Operation Frontline Assistant Coordinator, Americorps VISTA A couple of months ago, a group of students from Georgetown University contacted us about making a documentary on Operation Frontline DC for their class Social Justice Documentary. At first we were slightly wary. The logistics of getting media releases for our participants seemed daunting, not… Read more »
A Hard-Earned Celebration
This is OFL Coordinator Becky Handforth’s blog debut. Becky will surely be contributing to our blog regularly. In this first post, she reflects on a recent graduation class. Some days work doesn’t seem at all like work. It seems too fun, too fulfilling, too inspiring to be called a job. One of those days was… Read more »
A New Endeavor
by Ona Balkus Operation Frontline Assistant Coordinator, Americorps VISTA I am a strong believer in making your work fun, and making what’s fun your work. Identify your strengths, interests, and passions, and then use them to improve the world and your community. With all my 23 years of experience in living, this seems like the… Read more »