Edición Semanaria: Ancestral Foods Nourish Immigrants’ Bodies and Souls this Holiday Season
This story was produced as a larger project by Valeria Fernandez for the 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on how indigenous, immigrant communities and people of color have been organizing before and during the pandemic in communities of care to find support and healing.
Her other stories include:
Pioneering study on how the pandemic affects the mental health of Latinos
En Arizona, inmigrantes afectados no van al médico por temor a regla de 'carga pública'
Edición Semanaria: Network of Therapists Helps Migrants and Activists with Mental Health Problems
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To get through the crises generated by the pandemic and the holiday season, millions of unemployed or part-time workers are turning to food banks run by government agencies or charitable organizations. In Arizona, a group of activists is adding something special to their donation: they give food bags with indigenous and organic products to immigrants and low-income people so that, in addition to alleviating their hunger, they can reconnect with the smells and flavors of their ancestors. Valeria Fernández brings us this report from Phoenix. This report was partially supported by the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism.
[This story was originally published by Radio Bilingüe.]