Kids — Martin's Way

AI Skills for Girls · Nepal & Laos Claude Code collaboration to teach girls AI skills in Nepal and Laos to build audio and video products. Seeking funding partners.
Hand Sanitizer · Mumbai Slum Schools Still finding funders to distribute hand sanitizer to children in Mumbai slums without running water in their bathrooms.
Pop-Up Fresh Food · DTLA Pop-up fresh food stores in and around Downtown Los Angeles to offer real choice — fresh over junk — to kids and families in underserved neighborhoods.

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Delridge Way SW · West Seattle · 2010

The Food Desert

Delridge Way is a street of no choices — cheap beer and cigarettes, which makes it a tough street for kids. It has been classified a food desert. In 2010, we opened a pilot store to bring fruit and vegetables to the Delridge community. The purpose was simple: offer Delridge kids the same food choices that kids in more affluent neighborhoods take for granted.

For two years we sold the highest-quality produce, fruit, and spices at cost. We concluded the project when a local food co-op announced their opening — that was always the goal. Diane Tice made Project Delridge possible: gifts from her organic orchard, and the generosity that made our nonprofit real.

Food desert. A neighborhood where residents cannot buy fresh produce within one mile. This is not a natural condition. It is a market decision — and a choice someone made about whose children matter.

Mumbai Slums · Nalasopara · 2013–14

Clean Hands

In 2013–14 we took on a project to provide hand sanitizer to schools in the Mumbai slums — schools without running water in their bathrooms. Gastrointestinal illness is among the most common sicknesses in India. In a country where the majority eat with their fingers, clean hands are not a hygiene preference — they are essential to good health.

Progress has been slow due to lack of funding. We are still seeking partners to buy and distribute hand sanitizer to 50 schools. The need has not changed.

Two projects. Two continents. The same equation: a child's chance at health — or an education, or a meal — should not depend on the ZIP code they were born into. That is not sentiment. That is arithmetic.