Healthy Living for Latina Women and their Families

Summary

Somos Mayfair is empowering women, their families and their community to live healthy lives through free nutrition and exercise classes, health screenings and community teatro.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Latinos are more obese than all other racial groups in Santa Clara County. Mayfair's immigrant Latino community has limited access to nutritious food and safe places to exercise. Women and their families cannot afford health care. These social and economic conditions prevent these families from living healthy lives.

How will this project solve this problem?

20 women in this 6 month program benefit from nutrition and exercise classes, health screenings, physical examinations and family gym memberships, basic healthcare that would otherwise be too expensive for these low-income families.

Potential Long Term Impact

Obesity leads to diabetes; a deadly illness that is ravaging this community. By providing preventative intervention and care, Somos Mayfair is saving lives.

Project Message

The nutrition classes helped me because I learned to read food labels and learned how to make healthier eating choices. It was also nice to have access to health care since a lot of us don’t have it.
- Olga Montes, Beneficiary, mother, immigrant

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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