By: Chinelo Edochi
E.C.H.O.S!!!!!!! Finding about this organization is something I really appreciate and can be highly beneficial to SEWA. E.C.H.O.S (Epiphany Community Health Outreach Services) is a non-profit organization that provides access to health care, education, job training and empowerment to immigrants, refugees or people at risk. They provide these services to people regardless of their culture, race or ethnicity. Yesterday,the other public health interns and myself went to E.C.H.O.S to get more information about their organization. We spoke to Jean Kegler, the executive director, who gave us a run-down of what they do and we also told her what SEWA does. We told her the project we were working on, which consists of three different health camps including nutrition and hygiene, women’s health and tobacco smoking, planned for the refugees at Los Arcos. She gave us great resources such as Juno research, Texas Smiles Dental, Bethel Heavenly Clinic and other resources and organizations we could reach out to. She also offered to help reach out to these organizations to see if we could get them to speak on the various health camps. Something else that got me excited was seeing a friend who worked at E.C.H.O.S that I never thought I would.
The children’s activities at Los Arcos was a huge success as well. It was well structured and very organized. The children were all very creative with the wooden puppets and wooden planes they made. They also paid close attention to rules and regulations that were laid down for them.
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