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where you live should not determine how
long you live the difference between babies born up in the Carmel area versus southern Indy is about 14 years and that in life expectancy terms it's just huge it's very sobering the difference in those statistics we have to be willing to talk about these things and understand what really is behind health what makes a community healthy diabetes can drive down your whole life expectancy and that's a measure of how healthy your area is I know that diabetes has our community by the neck right there in order for me to be successful in order for my children to have a future I have to do something and I just can't sit and wait for somebody else to do it for the organizers of this project they have engaged the community from the first moment they went in and just said we want to listen what is it that you need we need healthier food opportunities in excess not just where we can drive to or go to and mouths are too away a really accessible right there where we're at making sure that they are getting high-quality education high quality health care high quality food not just because it is some areas we have low income but because we deserve it as residents and as humans what's great about this project is that it connects the dots between community development which works on the social in other words housing education Public Safety through the health care industry more specifically to health of individuals this project will solidify community health workers as part of the medical team so that we're not just these four walls but that we're really seen in the community as an asset and that we're contributing to their team I think it's phenomenal because one you're able to reach those working families that have worked 10 to 12 hours that cannot make it to the clinic and I think that's what a community worker is supposed to be you know they are in their community they are working for the people in their community and they know their community I'm hopeful that we see a downward spiral and the instances are type 2 diabetes and that we know that people are getting educated on how to eat what to eat when to eat where to eat if we could get the medical professionals to think about why building a new sidewalk has any impact on their patients with diabetes then that's my ultimate dream is that we have managed to think about all along the way sustainability and so what the passion and the love that I have hopefully every hour that I spend every minute that I spend is going to make a better future 
