Local non-profit gives out southern-style, vegan meals to East Albany.
ALBANY, Ga. – Gud Life FLOW is one of Albany’s only options when it comes to plant-based, vegan food. And the non-profit organization is currently giving away meals, free of charge, to encourage people on the east side of Albany to make smarter, healthier food choices.
“Our goal has really been just to bless the community with a healthy option,” says Co-Founder Joshua Nelson.
Gud Life FLOW is a small non-profit working to tackle a big problem: health disparities in Black and brown communities.
“We want to make sure that we’re tackling this on a foundational level and and allowing food to be medicine as it was intended to be for our communities,” says Dr. Samara Sterling, nutritionist for Gud Life FLOW.
On the east side of Albany, where you’ll find Gud life flow, many people in the area don’t have access to healthy food. But the organization is trying to change that narrative.
“It feels really good to be able to give people a box at the same time that we’re giving them cooked food and be like: ‘oh the person who grew this lives 30 minutes outside of Albany,’” says Co-Founder Amna Farooqi.
The meals that are given away aren’t what you would expect when you hear vegan.
Vegan ribs
“We’ve come up with some really creative ideas, meals that people wouldn’t normally think could be vegan but we’ve switched it and flipped it up like bbq shredded ribs but it’s all plant-based, we got mac n cheese that is so cheesy you wouldn’t even know what it was but it’s Mac n cheese. Real cheese? No, it’s actually plant-based cheese but it tastes like real cheese. We got greens from the garden that are locally grown; we got sweet potatoes. So it’s just been a really an amazing conglomerate of people from the community coming together to bring fresh food for the east side of Albany.”
Although the vegan meals are given away for free, the organization relies entirely on donations and wants to continue to serve the community.
“We don’t want it to just be here temporarily, we want it to be last, we want it to be generational, we want to actually change the health dynamics here in Albany,” says Co-Founder & visionary of Gud Life FLOW Princess Brownlee.
To put your order in for the next meal pick-up (July 25) click here, and on their website there is an option to also donate.
To support the organization with a donation through CashApp, so that they can continue to serve the community, enter in their account on the app: $glflow
