Support for Minorities in Wisconsin

The COVID Pandemic that affected the nation has thankfully been subsided in the past few years, but the threat of COVID still remains. This remains true for many minority individuals who have trouble accessing clean resources and vaccinations to protect against the COVID virus. Fortunately, we as an organization, along with the support of our partners, have had many successful opportunities to run free vaccination clinics that also serve to provide minorities with access to free resources and information on how to get support for their struggles.

As of late, the need for full direct access to COVID vaccines is dwindling, as more and more of our community are being successfully vacinated. The main concern now is to ensure that individuals of our community that got vaccinated continue to get their booster shots at the appropriate moments. This involves making sure to direct individuals to free and locally available clinics and pharmacies across the Fox Valley Region. We have made a considerable effort to include this information in our handouts, with the numbers and addresses to locally available pharmacies and clinics handed to minority individuals throughout our many other events.

For the people that PCI directly work with, we ensure that they have access to the resources that they need. This includes asking if they are in need of a COVID vaccine, and if they do, we help them to sign up for a COVID vaccine at a local clinic or pharmacy. While the demand for COVID vaccines has reduced, we still want to ensure that people are still prepared and protected against COVID.

Links:

• Our main website

PCI serves to provide for our minority and refugee community in order to sustain themselves and their families. For many immigrant families or refugees coming to the Fox Valley, everyday items many take for granted, such as cleaning products or diapers for their young children, are found to be prohibitively expensive. Many families sacrifice products for good hygiene because on top of other living essentials such as housing, food, water, and electricity, they simply can't afford anymore items.

PCI seeks to rectify that by providing low-income families with the opportunity to recieve free diapers through our diaper program. We partnered with local diaper banks and other non-profits to acquire a large quantity of diapers and other hygenic products like baby wipes, shampoos, and toothbrushes, which are kept in our office space for safe-keeping.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, between certain hours, we open our office doors for at-risk families to come in and be provided a select amount of diapers for each child in their family, enough to last for another month, as well as any other hygenic product the family is in need of. These drop-in office hours are regularly posted to our social media, and we also approach mothers and fathers regularly at various faith-based events or other community gatherings to inform them of our supply and when we are available to assist in providing them with their diapers or hygiene products.

We would like to continue to do this for as long as we can, so we turn to other non-profits and donars to continue supplying us with the means to get more diapers and products in our supply so that more at-risk families can be better provided in the Fox Valley.

Links:

• our main website