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"Not for me alone"
Everything that one learns in ARISE is meant to be passed on to someone else.
Oftentimes the natural wisdom and native intelligence of people, especially women, are discounted. Persons, especially women, can easily get the message that they cannot do anything of importance if they do not have sophisticated academic credentials and a superior command of the English Language. ARISE does not believe this. Rather ARISE believes in the assets and gifts of the people in each community where it serves persons who immigrate to USA. Based on this belief ARISE identifies persons from low-income, marginated and discounted immigrant populations and builds their capacity to become leaders, organizers and capacity builders for their own people in their own neighborhood. ARISE teaches the immigrant how to navigate the systems designed to serve her/him and how to integrate into everyday life in USA.
ARISE Communities participating in Día del Niño Parade in South Tower
One might say that ARISE is truly a program 'of the people, for the people, and by the people'. Neighbor helping neighbor in the neighborhood is a popular way to describe ARISE.
Summer in the ARISE neighborhood
Click here to learn about the friends of ARISE
P.O. Box 778
RR. 2 Box 133A
Alamo, Texas 78516
Phone: 956-783-6959
Fax: 956-783-0274
e-mail ARISEsotex@rgv.rr.com
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