Update from Healthy Bodega Initiative – Group A

We have made a lot of progress in the last week or so. We have completed a survey of our focus area – 135^th Street to 145^th Street from Amsterdam to St. Nicholas – and mapped out all of the bodegas.

We have also drafted two surveys – one for bodega owners to find out what kinds of healthy foods and/or lunch specials they would be willing to carry in their stores and one for neighborhood residents to find out what kinds of healthy foods and/or lunch specials they would be willing to buy from a neighborhood bodega. We have plans to meet with several bodega owners next week.

Finally, we are planning to shoot a brief movie about the bodegas in our target area and have already begun shooting footage. We plan to post the video on YouTube and use it as a way to promote the bodegas that we end up working with on this initiative.