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An innovative, community-led transformation model developed by the UC San Diego Refugee Health Unit (RHU), a core initiative of the UC San Diego Center for Community Health (CCH) at the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute, has attrac ....
News News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. The Refugee-Led Coalition Creating Collective Care Before the pandemic, refugee-led community-based groups gathered for Cooking Across Generations, an intergenerational storytelling celebration of refugee families who shared memories and rituals of ancestral foods in City Heights, San Diego. Photo by Rucha Chitnis Already facing health and education gaps, refugees in San Diego banded together during the pandemic to define their own challenges and create their own solutions. May 6, 2021 Jama Ahmed Mohamed was 2 years old when his family fled the civil war in Mogadishu, Somalia, and escaped to a refugee camp in Kenya. This became his precarious home, where his family faced alienation and violence as displaced outsiders in the borderlands of two countries. “There’s this feeling of never being settled. …We would build ....
San Diego organization bringing attention to unrest in Myanmar The military took over the government in February. The Karen Organization of San Diego is holding rallies to speak up against the military coup in Myanmar. and last updated 2021-04-05 21:29:09-04 SAN DIEGO (KGTV) A San Diego organization is trying to bring attention to the plight in Myanmar, with hundreds of people killedâincluding childrenâfollowing the military takeover of the civilian government. April Moo was born and raised in a refugee camp in Thailand. âLife in [a] refugee camp was difficult,â she said. Her parents fled Burma, now Myanmar, because of civil war and conflict between ethnic minorities and the military. Mooâs family is Karen, one of the many ethnic minorities in the country. ....
Print A limited supply of COVID-19 vaccine combined with language and technology barriers are keeping many San Diegans of color waiting for their shot at immunity. Most White San Diegans eligible for the vaccine have gotten a shot, with roughly 551 vaccinated per 1,000 eligible residents, compared to 527 for Latinos, 520 for Asians and 349 for Black San Diegans, according to data on current vaccinations from the county’s vaccine dashboard and eligibility estimates from the San Diego Workforce Partnership. Advertisement Advertisement Some of the county’s demographic data, posted on its online dashboard, is poorly defined. Roughly 15 percent of those vaccinated are listed as “other race,” and 12 percent did not disclose their race or ethnicity. Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said on Thursday that the county is still looking into the matter, noting that the dashboard combines data reported from various sources. ....