Grace Weaver's Page

The biggest food security challenge that Texas and America faces is wastefullness. We throw out about 1/3 of what we buy, and sometimes don't finish our meals. We waste good food that other people could benefit from. I think that with the help of the new freezer bags that have been made to help preserve food longer, and a better state of mind, our country will benefit from not as much waste, or atleast not as much waste as fast as if we didnt throw away food.

I would want to help by helping someone start a home garden. I would find out what it takes to take care of a garden, and then help the person buy vegetables to plant in their garden. I would watch over the garden with them for the first year, and see how they're doing in the coming years. This would help them keep a steady income of vegetables that they aren't wasting.

Ten years from now I hope to be living in a part of Austin, married, and coaching and teaching at a high school. I hope that I would be able to reach out to the kids that I teach and coach and hlep them to make a difference in their community and beyond. I would also maybe try to get a group together at the school that helps figure out problems in the community and who go out and help the community by volunteering.

My hero I chose is Josh Nesbit. He has taken the technology from our country and put it to good use in a remote region in Malawi. I think that this is a smart a sufficient way to help people in other countries and to make it easy for us to help them.

Im choosing to follow him on his blogs and possibly on facebook. I think that he will make a big difference in the way that we connect and interact with the people of other countries who are in… Continue