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Print Chula Vista nonprofit Community Through Hope is set to host an event to honor South County leaders who spearheaded COVID-19 response efforts and to raise funds for a new program that would bring medical care to the homeless. The nonprofit has organized “Border Health Rocks” on Sunday, Sept. 12, at the Living Coast Discovery Center in Chula Vista and is set to feature a concert to celebrate five local individuals “for their leadership and courage in improving the health of the San Di...

San Diego County is making progress in vaccinating minority communities, but a local biologist believes more can be done.

Nationwide efforts underway to disarm hate and make the Asian community feel safer and last updated 2021-04-27 15:54:06-04 SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Reports of violent crimes against people from the Asian community continue to come into law enforcement. But efforts are underway nationwide to help the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) community feel safer. "Taking public transportation or just walking out in public has been pretty challenging and pretty scary," said Paul Lim, a sophomo...

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – In the hopes of eliminating any further vaccine barriers, a free, no appointment necessary vaccine site is taking place April 17 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., focusing on getting San Diego’s Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities vaccinated. The vaccine site is open to the public and offers 1,000 Moderna vaccines at the Sons & Daughters of Guam at 334 Willie James Jones. Ave., San Diego, CA 92102. Anyone 18 years older and above can take advantage of the opportunities....

Print JoAnn Fields comes from a long line of Filipino advocates in San Diego and the Philippines. And because she’s seen such dedication and hard community work for so long, she’s ready to see change for real. “My mom was first generation and immigrated from the Philippines to San Diego,” Fields said. “So I’m the first born Filipino American, so they call us second generation. The first generation is chasing the American dream and looking for better opportunities. For me, our genera...

The group works to report bias and hate incidents against Asian American Pacific Islanders.

JoAnn Fields, a Filipino community advocate, helps volunteers at the I Am My Brother’s Keeper food distribution event in Encanto. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz There’s evidence to suggest Filipinos have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. But you wouldn’t necessarily know that looking at public health data. Most datasets group dozens of nationalities under the “Asian” category and Filipino leaders in San Diego argue that this type of aggregation hides the true impact on their comm...

San Diego County passes plan to help minority communities with coronavirus relief They also passed a plan that declares racism a public health crisis in San Diego County. and last updated 2021-01-12 20:24:17-05 SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to pass two plans that are aimed at helping the racial divide. The first is a plan that will rely on a collaborative, data-driven equitable response to coronavirus. The goal is to help communities hit the har...