December 23, 2008
Filed Under (Las Mujeres) by lindablog

El Paso went really well. The center, or Centro Salud Familiar La Fe’ where we had the screening is not just a health center, it is a campus. The organization was started 40 years ago by a group of women from the barrio that were filling a need for health care in their neighborhood where there was none. They begged, borrowed and found creative ways to get doctors to come to the facility they also begged and borrowed for.  So 40 years later, they have a staff of 400 people working in 17 satellite facilities that include a technology center with a state of the art sound studio, three computer labs where neighborhood residence can learn basic skills to cisco networking or Microsoft A+ certification. Their latest addition to this campus is an elementary school that they are expanding by grade each year. It is a dual language immersion school with 2 hours of physical education each day, a fine arts program and music. In the morning lessons are conducted in English, the afternoons lessons are entirely in Spanish. We had almost 100 people which was good considering we were competing against two big fundraisers and a free outdoor concert. State Rep Norma Chavez was there as she was mentored by Irma Rangel. The kicker was Saturday morning I was on ‘Good Morning El Paso’ which is the local feed (during the week) for Good Morning America. They showed a film clip and I talked about the film for three minutes. We’ve been invited back to UTEP for Women’s history month to screen at the University.


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