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How does food help heal?  What role does food play in terms of access, income and neighborhoods in DC? How does one’s life change when diagnosed with a catastrophic illness and there is no access to a supermarket?  For the past six weeks our seventh graders have been exploring these questions by visiting and serving through an amazing organization called Food and Friends.  Food and Friends helps deliver healthy meals to individuals living with life threatening illnesses all over the DC area.  Burke students help with packaging meals for delivery and actually go on delivery runs with help from our wonderful seventh grade parents.  Through classes taught on location by experts from Food and Friends, Burke students learn about nutrition, the costs associated with healthy eating, different illnesses and hear from an actual client benefitting from the food delivery program.   Check out the pics of our students serving and learning at Food and Friends!