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Chef Juanita serves a lunch customer.

Culinary job training and food production

In 2012, P.E.E.R., Inc. will open the East Lake Community Kitchen to expand access to fresh, nutritious foods. A culinary job-training program will provide paid career training in ...

Students in the Good HELP program prepare and plant a vegetable garden in East Lake.

Good Health in East Lake: education and activities

The Good Health in East Lake Program (Good HELP) supports healthy behaviors and strengthens community by providing opportunities for health education and for participating in healt...

Volunteers help students with their homework.

Homework help and healthy activities for neighborhood youth

Step Up supports healthy living and learning for local students through a twice-weekly after-school enrichment program. Kids eat healthy snacks, receive one-on-one help with homewo...

Volunteers deliver boxes of fresh produce to neighborhood seniors in need.

Fresh produce for neighborhood seniors

The Senior Market Basket Program extends the benefits of the East Lake Farmers Market to low-income seniors in South East Lake by providing and delivering a weekly supply of fresh ...

News & Events


Support us on Alabama Gives Day
Jan 24, 2012 | by | Comments Off | Read →

Thursday, February 2 is statewide Alabama Gives Day!  Please consider making a donation to P.E.E.R., Inc. on this day.  You can find our Alabama Gives page at http://www.razoo.co...

Recipes


Tasty tidbits
Jan 5, 2012 | by | Comments Off | Read →

As we’ve done in the past, we’ll be posting recipes for farmers market goodies and other tasty stuff here.  Please let us know if you have a recipe you’d like to...



East Lake Farmers Market

Fresh Produce from Local Farms
Local farmers offer fresh produce.

The East Lake Farmers Market, established in 2005, makes fresh produce and other resources for healthy living available in South East Lake. At the market, you will find: A bounty o...

Senior Market Baskets

Fresh produce for neighborhood seniors
Volunteers deliver boxes of fresh produce to neighborhood seniors in need.

The Senior Market Basket Program extends the benefits of the East Lake Farmers Market to low-income seniors in South East Lake by providing and delivering a weekly supply of fresh ...

Step Up

Homework help and healthy activities for neighborhood youth
Volunteers help students with their homework.

Step Up supports healthy living and learning for local students through a twice-weekly after-school enrichment program. Kids eat healthy snacks, receive one-on-one help with homewo...

Community Kitchen

Culinary job training and food production
Chef Juanita serves a lunch customer.

In 2012, P.E.E.R., Inc. will open the East Lake Community Kitchen to expand access to fresh, nutritious foods. A culinary job-training program will provide paid career training in ...

Good HELP

Good Health in East Lake: education and activities
Students in the Good HELP program prepare and plant a vegetable garden in East Lake.

The Good Health in East Lake Program (Good HELP) supports healthy behaviors and strengthens community by providing opportunities for health education and for participating in healt...