Our Women in Green Food Access Team ended 2012 on a high note. During this eventful year, I saw each team-member grow in our skills and leadership, myself included. One of the goals of the Food Access Team, stated in our Women in the Green Economy: Voices from Southeast Seattle report, was that we wanted…
Got Green is excited that many Seattle residents who use the Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP)/Food Stamps will be getting a healthy boost to help offset the costs of eating more nutritious produce this summer! The City of Seattle has introduced its first ever Fresh Bucks pilot program which will run from August 1-September 30 2012…
Women in the Green Economy Project organizer Tammy Nguyen agreed to tell her story as part of a national Mother’s Day campaign led by the Strong Families Initiative. Read Tammy’s story below and consider making a Mother’s Day gift to Got Green in her honor or in honor of a mama or strong woman in…
In 2011 Ramata Diébaté, a 2007 graduate of the University of Washington, discovered Got Green’s Women in Green Economy Project and quickly became involved: “I was breastfeeding my 18 month old and I was very aware of what types of nutrients I was putting into my body, but with two small children, financing a healthier…
GREAT NEWS! The Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program MADE IT into the House Budget! The House Budget INCLUDES funding for WIC FMNP!!!!! The news we had received this morning was that it wasn’t in the budget but after all of the confusion, we have GREAT NEWS! It has not been cut and it remains funded at…
By Violet Lavatai, Food Access Team Member On February 14, 2012 Women in Green took a second trip to Olympia to join Faith Action Now (FAN) in fighting for some of the programs that Governor Gregoire’s new budget proposals have put on the chopping block for the regular sessions. One of the programs that the…
Ramata Diebate reflects on the action and reports back to the Got Green and the community… January 12, 2012 was the day! It was a crisp but sunny January morning as Got Green headed to Olympia to try to save the Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP). Women in Green Organizer, Tammy Nguyen knew us…
Great job on the Chase action on Saturday! We delivered a big turkey and letter to the Othello branch manager demanding that Chase give back 10% of the fees they charge on EBT cards to save the Farmer’s Market Nutrition program for low-income women, children, and seniors. Women, children, and families marched down MLK to…
Ramata Diebate is a committed parent of two young children, Dominic and Ella. A 2007 graduate of the University of Washington, she volunteers at the Kent Family Court Parent-to-Parent Peer Advocates program. Since participating in an urban environmental education program in high school, she has worked to educate herself about our food system and its…
Violet Lavatai and her son Russell live with her sister’s family in Seattle’s Skyway neighborhood. They had their own place until the recession hit and it cost Violet her job as a computer technician for a national gas station chain. Violet is passionate about increasing access to healthier foods for her family, her Samoan community,…
