Foundation For Community Health Podcast

Gabriela - Immigrated to the United States from Peru when she was 23 years old as Peru was in social, political and economic chaos.  She needed to help her family with their finances.  In the US she worked in a vegetable garden and in construction before starting her own cleaning business while she went to school in Poughkeepsie, NY, to learn English.  After she married, she moved to Clinton, NY.  She is now the Executive Director of Somos La Llave Del Futuro helping Latino immigrants in Dutchess and Sullivan counties of New York access healthcare and navigate the system to better themselves.