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First Annual Time, Treasure and Talent Hunt

Here are 13 easy ways to make a difference in the Latino community and empower local Latinos to improve their health, access services, and work toward greater social and economic justice!

Centro de Enlace’s staff and volunteers are proud of having served a record number of folks and helped the community with very complicated and serious issues in 2010. Help us find the PEOPLE and THINGS we need to be effective in 2011. Join our First Annual Time, Treasure and Talent Hunt!

PEOPLE:

  1. Problem Solvers and Concerned Friends to attend Community Gatherings to learn about and brainstorm around issues facing the Latino community. (Interpretation equipment and interpretation provided)
  2. Tutors after school ( No Spanish necessary)
  3. Drivers for Saturday morning Community Gatherings (one a month or when you can/No Spanish necessary).
  4. Baby sitters for Saturday Community workshops (one a month or when you can/No Spanish necessary).
  5. Drivers to take LaTeena Health Team members home in the evenings (up to 3 times a week or when you can/No Spanish necessary).
  6. Members to promote acceptance of our membership ID card throughout Yancey County, which serves for many local Latinos as their only form of ID and has opened doors to services and agencies from which they were previously shut out. (Find out more or purchase here)

THINGS:

  1. 30” Range/Oven for the kitchen to be used by our Community Health Teams.
  2. Refrigerator for the kitchen to be used by our Community Health Teams.
  3. Flat screen TV to be used by our Community Health Teams for exercise and educational videos.

10.  DVD Player to be used by our Community Health Teams and in our Language Lab.

11.  Computers that folks can use to take classes online and for our After School Program.

12.  Books in Spanish for our library.

13.  Donations to sustain the center’s work and programs. (Donate online here)

Please spread the word and invite your friends to this ‘Event!’

To donate your time, talent and treasures, contact us at 682-6750 or elcentrodeenlace@gmail.com. You can also join our Facebook Event here.

Thank you!

Elizabeth Turner, Executive Director