INDIANAPOLIS — Far east side residents are hopeful of a new initiative working to eliminate food deserts.
The Mobile Community Grocery Store is set to open in a couple of weeks. The grocery store is located in a modified, temperature-controlled trailer that will travel to various locations.
“There are many places in our city where we currently have food deserts. If they’re not food deserts, they’re places that have foods that are not healthy, that one can pick up in a gas station and so on,” explained Indianapolis City-County Council President Vop Osili, shortly after helping cut the ribbon on the new truck.
WRTV “Understanding the impact of nutritious food on the growth potential of their children and their grandchildren is incredibly important and they’re incredibly important for our city and the future of our city,” Osili said.
The initiative was led by MT Carmel Church pastor Thernon Wiliams.
He says it can have a huge ripple effect on the community.
“There’s research that has been done that suggests poor nutrition equals criminal behavior. And so we wanted to deal with this nutritional piece to provide an opportunity for people in the neighborhood and our community to have access to fresh food like everybody else,” Williams said.