Eliminating Race-based Health Disparities
 

Harvest House is pleased to welcome First Fruits Pantry to our East Side location at 175 Jefferson Ave.

NEW HOURS!!!!

Stop by on Tuesdays at 4pm and Fridays at 2pm to pick up your fresh fruits and vegetables 🥦 🍎🍋🥬🧅

The food bags will be right inside the entrance to our Baby & Children’s Ministry. ALL are welcome!!!!!"

Our Mission

The Buffalo Center for Health Equity will eliminate race, economic, and geographic-based health inequities in Western New York by changing the social and economic conditions that cause illness and shorten lives among the sickest of the region.

LEARN MORE ABOUT BCHE

 

12 years

Of life lost by each person living in specific areas of Buffalo because of their race.

0%

Of health should be determined by where a person lives.

243%

More likely a black woman will die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes.

 

Read our Buffalo Center for Health Equity: Building a Culture of Health & Ending African American Health Disparities 2019 Report (here)

 

“Citizens of Erie County should not have their life expectancy determined by ZIP code.”

— BUFFALO NEWS EDITORIAL, A FORCE FOR GOOD, OCTOBER 5, 2019