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Why Race Matters

Mike Slaughter January 17, 2022

Ginghamsburg Church invested its 2019 Christmas Miracle Offering to join other community sponsors and its partner Homefull in Dayton, Ohio, to implement a mobile grocery store that makes healthy foods at affordable prices available within neighborhoods identified as food deserts.

Terry DeMio published an excellent article in the Cincinnati Enquirer last month pointing to the inequities resulting in higher hospitalizations for Black children.

Our daughter has spent most of her twenty years as a clinical dietician working in children’s hospitals. Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center wanted to know why so many Black children were readmitted to the hospital for asthma. Why do Black children suffer more with life-threatening complications of Type 1 diabetes?

Uncategorized Cincinnati Enquirer, Dayton, Food deserts, Homeful, Mike Slaughter

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