Into the void left by a health care system that doesn’t offer sufficient translation services and an economy that demands grueling labor from low-wage agricultural and meatpacking workers, Punjabi residents in California’s Central Valley have created an organization to help each other.
Claudia Boyd Barrett
Harjit Kaur, a community health worker with the Jakara Movement, helps a Sikh community member register for a health clinic during a 2023 event at Jaswant Singh Khalra Neighborhood Park in Fresno.
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