SALISBURY TWP., Pa. – She traded in her doctor’s coat to make sure people everywhere have access to food, and now she’s making it her life’s mission.
She’s delivering hundreds of thousands of pounds of produce each year to people right in our own backyard.
Dr. Meagan Grega, Co-Founder of the Kellyn Foundation, visited 69 News at Sunrise to tell us why access to food is so critically important.
She spent years as a doctor in the office seeing patients. As a primary care doctor, she said she spent the majority of her time taking care of people that had diabetes, hypertension, or diabetes.
She found that she was not able to get to the root of the problem for chronic diseases.
“That was very frustrating,” she said.
She said she realized she needed to get out of the clinic and meet people where they are to help them thrive.
Grega and her partner Eric Ruth created the Kellyn Foundation in 2007 and launched the Healthy Neighborhood Immersion Strategy.
The “Eat Real Food’ Mobile Market goes out into Lehigh Valley neigborhoods to bring fresh produce, grocery staples, and delicious plant-powered meals, Grega said.
The market aims to increase accessibility to healthy food.
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