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The Refugee-Led Coalition Creating Collective Care

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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 ....

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COVID-19 vaccine access, not hesitancy, main barrier for San Diegans of color

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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.
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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. ....

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