Category: News
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Local Group Provides Microloans To Impoverished Women
By Maureen Cavanaugh and Pauline Lucas Local San Diego women are providing little loans that add up to big change in impoverished countries. WomensTrust and Women’s Empowerment International have provided microloans ranging from $55 to $5000 to help women in poorer countries start their own businesses. They have helped women in Ghana, Honduras, Mexico and…
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City Heights Youth to Contribute Art to World Refugee Day Event
Join Speak City Heights partner The AjA Project for World Refugee Day June 19 from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. The event will celebrate San Diego’s diversity with Pulitzer Prize winner Don Bartletti and local photographers Sam Hodgson and Roberto “Bear” Guerra. AjA will presentent a multimedia…
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Around the Community Table
Photo Credit: Adam, age 12, Iraq | Courtesy of The AjA Project Craft, organic coffee and specialty produce were once reserved for farmers markets and niche grocers in affluent neighborhoods. In City Heights, however, Agora Bean + Leaf sells specialty tea and coffee in chic packaging from the same row of stalls where refugees sell…
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Red Tape Turns a Green Farm into an Eyesore
Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published May 30, 2011 on For close to three decades, a group of mostly poor Cambodian refugees eked out a subsistence living by farming a parcel of land at the end of a southeastern San Diego cul-de-sac. The sprawling farm was impressive. Over the years the refugees had…
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Stalwart Departs a Changing Community He Helped Change
Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published May 25, 2011 on One day last week, Jay Powell drove his turquoise Mini Cooper down a residential street in City Heights and stopped in front of a faded two-story apartment building. Its units faced away from the street, so the only things visible were windows protected…