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California Health Report: Central Valley Residents Help One Another

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

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June 14, 2024

Nirmal Singh and Daljit Kaur outside the apartment building where they live in Fresno. The husband and wife both have vision problems but couldn’t afford to see an eye doctor. They also didn’t know how to find a Punjabi-speaking optometrist. The Jakara Movement’s community health worker program assisted them in obtaining free eye exams and eyeglasses, and provided translation during the eye exams.

Sahibjit Singh

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