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PPE Distribution Event
Last Friday of Every Month (April 28)
3pm – 6pm  
Bridging Cultures Office

• The Bridging Cultures Field Navigators will be providing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) including face masks and gloves, as well as Covid-19 testing kits, to farmworkers and the Latino/e/x community under the Protecting Oregon Farmworkers program
• Produce and culturally relevant staple items also distributed
• We will be joined by 2 local community partners sharing their resources and information

​We are always looking for volunteers to help clean up and distribute food boxes on event day.
​Interested? Let us know!

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• Friday 03/31/23 Vaccine & PPE Clinic: It's time for another COVID-19 vaccine and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) distribution at our office. We are looking for volunteers to help clean up and distribute food boxes on event day.
  ​Interested in helping out? Let us know!

Past Updates

• 12/09/22 Vaccine & PPE Event: At our December event, we gave out 57 flu vaccines and 23 covid vaccines.
• 11/19/22 Multicultural Feast: After a 3 year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we finally were able to resume our annual multicultural gathering! The turn out was so good we almost ran out of seating at between 400-500 guests. In addition to delicious Mexican and American food, we also enjoyed music by Angeles de Oregon and a native dance performance by Macuilosochitl (Meshica-Toltec Dance Group) and had an interactive community art activity. A HUGE thank you to Julian Rios for emceeing, Vicky Lopez and Sarah Spoon for speaking, FuseLight for graphic recording and (of course) all our amazing volunteers and supporters.
• 11/09/22 Vaccine & PPE Event: 174 families (877 individuals) came to our November vaccine and PPE event! With the addition of the flu shot, we were able to provide 55 total vaccines (35 COVID & 20 Flu) in partnership with the Oregon Health Authority. We gave out 161 food boxes and 150 hot meals and over 29,200 PPE supplies (Masks, Gloves & COVID Tests). Clackamas Children's Commission & Clackamas Department of Public Health gave our resources and information to community members.
• 10/12/22 Vaccine & PPE Event: Another amazing COVID-19 vaccine and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) distribution at our office. We gave out food boxes, vaccines, hot food and PPE and served 140 families. Both COVID-19 and Monkeypox Vaccines were offered and 59 of our neighbors got vaccinated. We are so grateful to work alongside our community.
• 09/26/22 ESL Fall 2022 Kickoff: Our ESL classes will be online this year, but we hosted our Fall kickoff event in person at Baker Prarie Middle School. Students, tutors and teachers gathered to get to know one another and get class materials. We had over 20 students and 6 tutors attend. We are so excited for a school year full of learning, connection and relationship building!
• 09/14/22 Vaccine & PPE Event: We hosted a COVID-19 vaccine and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) distribution at our office. The event was a complete success! Individuals and families were served food boxes, vaccines, hot food and PPE. 63 of our neighbors got vaccinated (a number 2-3 times recent local vaccine events!) 103 Families and 437 individuals were served (adults & children).

Featured In

Clackamas County Children's Commission
​ClackCoKids

September 23, 2022
Bridging Cultures was recently featured in ClackCoKids!
Check out Elevating LatinX Culture in the Greater Canby Community (Click here for English; Haz clic aquí para leer en Español) to learn more.

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