(Narrator) While inflation is expected to ease this year,
New Yorkers are still feeling the pinch at grocery stores.
One group of teens is stocking fridges with fresh produce
to help combat food insecurity.
Meet Skye, the 16 year old student
who started the Food Security Club at Stuyvesant High School.
(Skye) This is just a routine delivery for the Food Security Club at Stuyvesant
where we take the excess food that's not eaten from the cafeteria,
and we collect that over the course of a week,
and then we come to deliver it to places like this,
like the community fridge and also food pantries
- I'm Skye. - I'm Max,
and we're the Stuyvesant Food Security Club
That door leads you to cafeteria here at Stuyvesant.
Over here's the table where students can leave their extra food
that they don't eat for us to collect after school.
So we just finished counting and collecting all the food
so we can take stock of everything we have.
Now we're gonna go over and store this food
in the cafeteria fridges over there.
(Narrator) The club has about 30 student members
donating around 300 pounds of food to date
to low income communities and NYCHA housing.
Nearly 1.5 million New Yorkers are food insecure,
including 1 in 4 children.
So when Skye got in touch with me from Stuyvesant High School,
I said, "First of all, of course we would love to accept
all of this excess food that you're collecting."
And it doesn't need to be, you know, a government thing
or coming from a big non-profit,
it could just be a group of kids who care about their fellow neighbors.
(Narrator) These teens are encouraging students
from other schools to join in, like Maya,
a 17-year old from Trinity School on the Upper West Side
who decided to drop off meals after cooking excess in class.
(Maya) We aren't mindful of our food waste or what we are doing
not realizing that what we can do can actually help so many people
and also saving food like this helps the environment too.
(Narrator) There are over one hundred community fridges
scattered across New York City,
which provide a unique space for neighbors to connect.
(Sandra) People that didn't know each other before,
were strangers,
now they became family.
That's the way I see it.
(Narrator) On the Upper East Side, I'm Linda Galdino, News 4 New York.