BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY IN THE NEWS
Stamford Teacher of the Year goes to ‘superhero’ Turn of River educator Elba Sims
By The Stamford Advocate/ Ignacio Laguarda STAMFORD – Turn of River Middle School educator Elba Sims was recently named Stamford Teacher of the Year. Sims runs the New Arrivals…
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Darien Community Fund Volunteers honored
By Randi Weiner/ The Darien Times The Community Fund of Darien held its 44th annual Volunteer Celebration recently, honoring more than 86 Darien volunteers from 18 local nonprofit organizations. The…
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Each day, Stamford’s ‘jornaleros’ navigate uncertainty and exclusion in search of work
By Connecticut Public Radio / WNPR Day laborers, or jornaleros as they are called in Spanish, are immigrant workers who depend on finding a job each day. In Stamford, they…
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New Milestone for Building One Community
By Stamford Patch – Building One Community. Stamford-based Building One Community (B1C) reaches the milestone of supporting more than 15,000 immigrants in Fairfield County. Since its inception in 2011, Building…
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CT legislators push for more mental health support for kids
By Jessika Harkay, Ginny Monk, CTMirror.org, CT Insider State lawmakers are confident that Senate Bill 2, which has passed out of the Committee on Children, will continue to build upon…
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CT immigrants got care for their child through Medicaid expansion. A new bill would expand it further.
By Jared Weber – Stamford Advocate His family’s journey two years ago from Honduras to Norwalk was most taxing for Juan’s 5-year-old daughter. “She suffered a lot during the trip…
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