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Students with the Boys and Girls Club of Wooster are experiencing fresh local food this semester, thanks to Project Chop. Project Chop is a partnership between Local Roots Market and Cafe and the Boys and Girls Club. Through a grant from the Wayne County Community Foundation, Local Roots is able to prepare 80 fresh snacks for the kids four times a week. 'We really love it,' Christine Zerby, kitchen manager at Local Roots, said.
The Boys and Girls Club hopes this project will solve two problems in the area: access to food and childhood obesity. The club said about 51% of the kids it serves are economically disadvantaged and receive free or reduced lunches. The Wayne County Department of Health estimates about 35% of kids in the area are considered obese. 'It's so important to us to really build up the whole child,' Caitlin Petit, director of operations with the Boys and Girls Club of Wooster, said.
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