ARC (Awakening Respect and Compassion for all sentient beings), in Mobile, is adapting to the present moment by offering vegan food boxes to people facing food insecurity, and in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, a new racial justice scholarship. The scholarship seeks to address some of the health inequalities that African Americans face such as disproportionately high rates of diseases like heart disease, diabetes 2, high blood pressure and certain cancers, plus complications from COVID-19.

“These conditions can often be prevented and even reversed through a whole-foods, plant-based diet, but too often African American communities lack access to these healthy foods as well as facing other obstacles to proper nutrition and health care,” says ARC director Tracey Glover.

The plant-based nutrition and cooking scholarship (valued at $1,650) will be awarded to an individual of color in the Mobile area and includes full tuition for a six-week online nutrition class offered through eCornel, as well as an internet-based cooking and nutrition class offered through the Forks Over Knives website.

Upon completion of both of these high-quality, certificate-based courses, the grantee will be qualified to lead private and community courses in plant-based nutrition and cooking. The grantee will be asked to lead at least four free community classes with the full financial support of ARC.

For more information and to apply for food boxes or the scholarship, email T[email protected] or visit ARCForAllBeings.org.