Outside a C-Town Supermarket on bustling Jerome Avenue on a warm summer evening, Leeza Peña, 18, and Nyeem Gunn, 14, young volunteers who are part of a program called “Bronx Helpers,” circulated among rush-hour shoppers armed with smiles and plates of fruit kebabs….
“Getting people to change the way they eat takes time, so we start small, with just the simple idea that you can make cheap food and healthy food at the same time,” said Peña, who approached one shopper after another with kebabs and recipe sheets printed in English and Spanish.