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“ Empowering African Immigrant Community”, A Health Summit To Bring Together Healthcare Providers and African Immigrants women and young girls FREE Health Screenings Refreshments and Giveaways will be provided
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Harlem United Host a consultative meeting with community members, stakeholders and health care providers to discuss HIV epidemic and other health concerns in the African community in New York City. Delicious African food will be served.
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(L to R) Guillermo Linares, NYC Commissioner for Immigrant Affairs; Stacy Cumberbatch, Director NYC Census 2010 Office; Juana Ponce de Leon, Executive Director New York Community Media Alliance and Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director New York Immigration Coalition at the Press briefing on Census 2010.
New York, June 2, 2009 – Over 90 newspapers, TV and radio journalists from New York City’s ethnic and community media met at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism to get the details on the upcoming 2010 Census and its relationship to immigration law enforcement and the importance of participation. The briefing was organized by New York Community Media Alliance (NYCMA) in partnership with New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), NYC 2010 Census Office, CUNY TV and United States Census Bureau.
The briefing was organized in an effort to get census information to communities that sit beyond the Census 2010 outreach initiative, which is being conducted in only 7 languages.
New York City, where immigrants and communities of color represent roughly 60 percent of its residents, is identified as the US city with the most hard-to-reach communities and the lowest response rate in the country.
“A high rate of undercounting may lead to invisible communities. With this press briefing we want to engage the ethnic media to be part of the process and to inform their communities about the significance of participating in the Census,” said Juana Ponce de León, executive director of NYCMA, in her opening remarks.
To address the widespread fear in immigrant communities that undocumented relatives and friends risked arrest and deportation if they gave their information to the Bureau, Allison Cenac, senior officer at the New York regional Census Bureau office, assured the reporters this would not happen and spoke of steep fines and incarceration for those who broke this confidence. “Participation in the census is safe. We just want all New Yorkers to be counted, including the undocumented,” she said.
Stacey Cumberbatch, director of NYC 2010 Census Office, explained that accurate statistical information on the City’s population was important as it would determine the share of federal funding for critical services such as education, health care, and transportation. “The share of representation in the Congress and the City Council is also based on Census data,” she added.
“Every community must organize itself and plan its outreach,” said Chung-Wha Hong, executive director of NYIC and a trusted voice in the city’s immigrant communities. She pointed out that the role of the ethnic and community media was very important in the mobilization effort.
Tony Farthing, regional director of the Census Bureau, emphasized the need for the ethnic media “to motivate everyone to fill out the form and mail it back,” adding they could play the lead role in educating and building trust between the communities and the Census Bureau.
Of great importance to the attendees was information on economic opportunities for their communities brought by the Census initiative, which is hiring locally and can direct media representatives to advertising dollars for their outlets.
For more information, please contact NYCMA Communications Manager:
Jehangir Khattak, nycomm@indypressny.org, (212) 279-1442
The first-ever U.S.-based, summit, “Leadership for Health,” was hosted by US Doctors for Africa (USDFA) in Los Angeles, California, April 20-21, 2009. And the group did not disappoint. They walked down red carpets, on stylish suits and colorful African wraps. For many of those present at the Summit, the impression often created that a good number of these First Ladies were only interested in shopping and shaking people hands. This was the opposite as they got down to business presenting detailed reports and action plan to combat maternal death, malaria, TB , HIV/AIDS. These ladies exhibited first hand knowledge of the issues on the ground. Calling out to experts and donors for help. Unlike many other Summits, the First Ladies Health Summit did not set goals nor concentrate on describing the magnitude of problems bedeviling Africa, but rather the pragmatics of how to effect change and give better lives to women, young girls and children in Africa.
Ted Alemayhu, ED of USDFA and AHC’s ED Clarisse Fall
This two-day summit, focused on HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and girls’ education. The summit was hosted by USDFA, a non-profit organization that unites the African and American medical communities in a shared fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases. This alliance of 22 first ladies, known as African Synergy Against AIDS and Suffering, formed in 2002 with the aim of “pooling our efforts for more concerted and concrete action to alleviate suffering” and fighting HIV/AIDS throughout Africa. Collaborations to date include the opening of maternal health clinics, HIV treatment centers, orphan care programs and vocational training schools in Guinea, Niger, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Mali and Cameroon; as well as numerous other initiatives and advocacy efforts throughout all 22 member countries.
Recommendation included going back and seeing where African mothers and young girls gibe birth and make changes. Increase safety during child birth; combat factors causing maternal birth such as bleeding, ecclesia; increase prevention; focus on health care and people, increase competence, confidence and connectivity and calling on to people when there is a complication and last increase quality facility health care and provide the best health care to women, young girls and children.
“As an African woman, this is really exciting and motivating,” said Clarisse Mefotso Fall. “For me this is really about finding out how we can support the first ladies to improve women and young girls lives in Africa.”
Plans for the event included a fundraiser with a performance by Natalie Cole and a luncheon hosted by California first lady Maria Shriver. The summit concluded with a gala reception at the Beverly Hilton with a silent auction and actors like Jessica Alba, Blair Underwood, Natalie Cole, Naomie Campbell, Paris Hilton and other celebrities.
African Hope Committee (AHC), Inc., is a 501(c) 3 non-profit community based organization in Harlem that provides direct assistance through outreach, education, counseling and referral services to the African Immigrant population in the New York Metropolitan area
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