How Much Food is Eaten Around the World in One Week

Opening Our Eyes and Interpreting What We See.

The Melander Family of Bargteheide, Germany

For the Melander family, they spend 375.39 Euros or $500.07 per week for food.  This is what they purchase:

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The Revis Family of North Carolina, United States

For this family, they spend $341.98 per week on their grocery bill.  This is what they purchase:

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Meet the Manzo Family of Sicily, Italy

For the Manzo Family, they spend 214.36 Euros or $260.11 per week on food. This is what they purchase:

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The Casales Family of Cuernavaca, Mexico

This family spends 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09 per week on their food purchases.  This is what they purchase:

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Meet the Sobczynscy Family of Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland

This family spends 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27 for one weeks’ worth of food. This is what they purchase:

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The Ahmed Family of Cairo, Egypt

The weekly food expenditure for this family is 387.85 Egyptian pounds or $68.53 and they purchased these items:

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The Ayme Family of Tingo, Ecuador

For one week, their food expenditure is $31.55 and for this amount, they purchased these items:

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From Shingkey Village, Bhutan is the Namgay Family

For one week’s food expenditure, this family spends 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03. This is what they purchased:

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From Breidjing Camp, Chad is the Aboubakar Family

This family has a food expenditure of 635 CFA Francs or $1.25 per week. For this, they purchased:

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2007 Youth Venture New York Celebration!

When: April 11th, 2007 from 6-9pm 

Where: Youth Venture New York Office (located within The International Center for Tolerance Education)25 Washington St, 4th FloorBrooklyn, NY 11201 

Event Details: This is an opportunity for all of our New York area teams, volunteers, partners, and friends of Youth Venture to come together and celebrate all of the accomplishments of the past year. We will be recognizing the Grand Prize Winner of the Be A Changemaker Challenge, our most active recently launched Venture team, our most active volunteer, and our Venture teams that have been in existence for 5+years.  This will also be an opportunity for those new to the Youth Venture community to learn more about Youth Venture, our resources, and support networks. For our Venture teams, you will be able to promote your Ventures at the event. If interested, please let us know when you RSVP.   

Who: Venturers, Volunteers, Partners, Friends of YV, Public 

With Special Guest: Venturer, Kyle Taylor. This will be one of his first stops on the “Dream It! Do It! Global Connections Tour.” 

Food and Door Prizes provided by: Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Rice, Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, Echoing Green, Hip Hop Project, SYNC, and others!  Please RSVP:To ny@youthventure.org by April 7th.  

See you on April 11th! 

About Youth Venture

Youth Venture helps to empower young people ages 12-20 by providing them all the tools necessary to create civic-minded organizations, clubs or businesses. A Venture can be any youth-created, youth-led organization designed to provide a positive lasting benefit in a school, neighborhood, or large community. We strive to reach and support any young person nationwide who has a dream about how to make a difference, and the dedication to make it happen. We provide access to a variety of resources including: a national network of like-minded young people, media opportunities and up to $1,000 in seed capital needed to launch their organizations.

10 up-and-coming neighborhoods

10 up-and-coming neighborhoods
City (click for descriptions and more) Hot spot Zindex
1. Boston Dorchester $415,483
2. Chicago East Garfield Park $240,187
3. Denver Civic Center $208,773
4. Los Angeles Pico Union $597,784
5. Miami Little River $329,963
6. New York Kingsbridge Heights, the Bronx $936,439
7. Phoenix Cashion $229,234
8. San Francisco Mission Bay $835,895
9. Seattle University District $447,927
10. St. Louis Tiffany $138,823

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