nina lanuza, asociado de organización comunitaria, [email protected], 402.380.0785; o Rea Landholm, gerente de marketing y comunicaciones de marca, [email protected], 402.687.2100 extensión 1025
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SCHUYLER, NEBRASKA – With more than 36 languages spoken in Schuyler, Nebraska, population 6,211, community organizations, businesses, and volunteers have pitched in to assist at the weekly COVID-19 vaccination clinic.
Staff from the Center for Rural Affairs and other area nonprofit organizations are on hand week after week to help residents fill out the registration paperwork and to make sure they understand what is needed.
“People in the community know us and trust us,” said Alejandrina Lanuza, community organizing associate at the Center for Rural Affairs, who speaks Spanish and English. “We want to make sure everyone has access to the information no matter what language they speak.”
Se pueden solicitar intérpretes adicionales que hablan varios idiomas con una simple llamada telefónica.
Schuyler is home to meatpacking plant workers, and Lanuza said certain companies are encouraging all employees to get vaccinated. They are also sending support staff to help with translations.
“Las plantas procesadoras de carne en todo el país se convirtieron en focos de contagio de COVID-19 al comienzo de la pandemia y siguen representando un riesgo”, afirmó. “Queremos garantizar que estos empleados y sus familias tengan la oportunidad de vacunarse”.
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