Sixth Street Community Center
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Overview
In English and German (German see below / Deutsch siehe unten)
For 25 years Sixth Street Community Center has been committed to empowering the Loisaida community and celebrating its extraordinary diversity. They offer programs assisting low and moderate income residents which build a fulfilling sense of community around basic needs for food, health and education. Their current goals are to (1) further the education of our young people in sustainable agriculture, nutrition and health, (2) expand community supported agriculture in our neighborhood by reaching out to more low income households, and (3) strengthen food safety laws through their campaign against genetic engineering. Sixth Street Community Center is a not-for-profit community based organization. It began in 1978 as a block association organized by single mothers living on East 6th Street between Avenues B and C in the Lower East Side. These neighborhood women decided to organize to transform the meager conditions they were forced to live in: streets lined with abandoned buildings, poverty, crime and despair. They made it their mission to create a better and safer community in which to raise their families. One of their first efforts was to work with the City to seal up abandoned buildings that had become vulnerable to drug trafficking and crime. With the support of Save The Children and other foundations, funds were raised to purchase the building and turn it into a community center.
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Seit bereits 25 Jahre engagiert sich das Sixth Street Community Center für die Förderung der Loisaida Gemeinde und feiert nun ihre außergewöhnliche Vielfältigkeit. Sie bieten Programme an, die Anwohnern mit geringem oder moderatem Einkommen unterstützen und so einen erfüllenden Gemeinschaftssinn für Grundbedürfnisse wie Lebensmittel, Gesundheit und Bildung fördern. Momentan ist ihr Ziel (1) die Bildung junger Leute in nachhaltiger Landwirtschaft, Ernährungsweise und Gesundheit voranzubringen, (2) den Gemeinde unterstützenden Anbau in unserer Nachbarschaft zu erweitern indem mehr Haushalte mit geringem Einkommen angesprochen werden und (3) die Stärkung der Gesetzte zur Lebensmittelsicherheit gegenüber der Gentechnik durch ihre Kampagne. Sixth Street Community Center ist eine gemeinnützige gemeindebasierende Organisation. 1978 wurde sie als eine Blockassoziation gegründet und von allein erziehenden Müttern organisiert, die auf der East 6th Street zwischen Avenuen B und C in der Lower East Side wohnten. Diese Nachbarschaftsfrauen entschlossen sich dazu, die ärmlichen Zustände, in denen sie gezwungen waren zu leben, abzuändern: Straßen entlang verlassener Häuser, Not, Verbrechen und Verzweiflung. Sie machten es sich zu ihrer Mission eine bessere und sichere Gemeine zu schaffen wo sie ihre Familien aufwachsen lassen konnten. Eines ihrer ersten Erfolge war es mit der Stadt zusammen zuarbeiten um verlassene Gebäude abzusichern die vor Drogenhandel und Kriminalität gefährdet waren. Mit der Unterstützung von Save The Children und anderen Stiftungen stiegen die Beiträge für die Beschaffung des Gebäudes um es in ein Gemeinde Center zu wandeln.
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