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Hi, I'm Ines. I'm a student of the IES Joaquín Araujo High School and I participate in Global Scholars.

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Global Scholars is a community in which different high schools from all around the world come together virtually and discuss different topics.

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This year's topic is a really important one that really matters when we are talking about health and it's food.

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because we need to improve our diets so that we can grow healthier.

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Our first project in this unit was to research about a local product produced in your area

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and I chose chard.

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It's a vegetable that has been lived and it's really soft

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and that is grown here in Parque Agrario.

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Parque Agrario, it's a local orchard in Fuenlabrada and this has a lot of land where farmers from

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all around the city can come and farm here their products.

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It also doesn't give them just land, they also give them money so that they can live

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off of farming and growing vegetables and fruits and they also teach them new ways to

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be more productive when they are farming so that they can grow more products.

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Chard is grown during all the year and it's recollected during the months of December

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and April.

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When it's this time of the year, normally around 30,000 kilograms of chard is collected

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per day. That's a lot of time. Here in Parque Agrario you can visit it for free with your

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family or alone and you can walk around all their place which is really big and it takes

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around 3 hours to complete each route. All the products that are made here in Parque

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Agrario are then delivered or sold to supermarkets and archeological markets here in Fuenlabrada

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So that they can be bought for a lower price because since the pandemic nearly all the food has gotten up in price and now it costs more.

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So come with me to learn more about new ways to help food insecurity here in Fuenlabrada.

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Now we are in front of one of Fuenlabrada's social halls, there's a few more around the city but this one is right in the center.

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It's called La Casita, right now it's closed but here is where some families that don't have enough money to buy Madrid's food come to have a full free meal.

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I came here because I think it's a good solution against food insecurity.

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Food insecurity is when someone doesn't have enough money to access nutritious and healthy food for a good and nutritious diet.

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There are some more solutions to this problem, such as decreasing the prices to make food more affordable,

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or maybe just donating food, but it's a little bit complicated because everyone should help to achieve those goals.