Augusta, GA
National Hispanic Heritage Month: How a local clinic works to serve the underserved
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WFXG) – It’s Nationwide Hispanic Heritage Month! A free clinic helps this group in addition to different underserved populations within the CSRA.
“It’s insurmountable. There are round 25,000 uninsured folks on this neighborhood.” mentioned Dr. William Salazar, Asociación Latina de Servicios del CSRA (ALAS) President.
This can be a native effort to serve the underserved.
“It’s each human being’s duty to assist the opposite.” mentioned Dr. Salazar.
Clínica Latina is managed by the nonprofit Asociación Latina de Servicios del CSRA (ALAS). ALAS was established in 2005. The group helps the wellbeing of Hispanic folks and different underserved populations within the CSRA. It operates on Augusta College’s Well being Sciences Campus. The free clinic serves these with out medical health insurance and/or anybody who’s beneath the nationwide 200% poverty stage. The group goes past healthcare, with interpreter and identification companies, English language schooling and cultural schooling to the neighborhood.
“We now see a median of 200 sufferers a month. Many of those folks come from their nations, they’re very uneducated folks, they arrive right here and serve the neighborhood. Many of those folks work cleansing homes, many work in building, lots of the folks work within the fields, peach fields and the onion fields…Many of those folks come to serve different folks and to assist. They do not communicate the language. They do not get any connection. They’re afraid to go to the hospital as a result of the payments are going to be insurmountable.” mentioned Dr. Salazar.
Dr. Salazar says this want is just rising.
“The price of healthcare, COVID pandemic, the unemployment price, the truth that many individuals residing on the poverty stage misplaced their jobs– that’s making the entry to healthcare worse.” mentioned Dr. Salazar.
Volunteers, together with AU college students, assist take the time potential.
“I’m Hispanic. One of many causes I got here to medical college was to assist my very own neighborhood.” mentioned Alexa Ghulam, Clinic Coordinator.
“I’m half Dominican, half Peruvian. My mom is a doctor and rising up it was all the time one thing very inspiring watching her give again to the neighborhood we come from.” mentioned Stephanie Revoredo, Clinic Coordinator.
Clínica Latina is open on the primary and third Wednesday every month from 5 to eight pm.
“Each single time now we have a clinic, now we have a waitlist. So, the necessity is nice.” mentioned Ghulam.
AUGUSTA, GA. (WJBF) – Georgia’s second-largest pride event continues with a parade and festival to celebrate pride month.
The Augusta pride parade took a new route on Greene Street but did not change its purpose for all to stand together.
“To be able to come out and just like be with people who are like me and celebrate people like me. Then I can show those that might be scared that it’s okay to be out and be who you are,” said Desiree Banzanten, an attendee.
After living in another country, one attendee got emotional seeing the unity downtown.
“I’ve never been here before, and during the parade, I actually cried because I thought it was so beautiful that a sense of community was felt. Coming here this year and seeing how people are so willing to love each other and be so bold in their love for humans and each other is really refreshing,” said Beth Zinkhan, an attendee.
Two best friends were able to celebrate pride for the first time.
“I’m glad I was able to express myself to the people I love and hang out with some really cool people,” said attendee Roneisha Moore.
One best friend was happy to support and celebrate her friend and others.
“I’m glad she was able to come out to her friends and family and just celebrate with people,” said Courtney Etheredge, an attendee.
Some people traveled to Augusta to enjoy the Parade and Festival because there is nothing like it where they live.
“We’re so happy to be able to come out here, and I know Augusta isn’t always the safest place sometimes, but I feel so safe here. And to be able to just a thirty-minute drive and it’s like a whole different world,” said Elizabeth Hobbs, an attendee.
Attendees felt safe and overjoyed to have a place where they felt accepted.
“In our community, we’re not really recognized and were always shunned upon, so being out here and actually having something blocked off and dedicated to us all day, that’s like great, “said Kiera Lambert, an attendee.
In all people want to remind others to spread love, not hate.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting late last year that claimed the life of a 20-year-old in south Augusta.
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office said late Friday afternoon that Rashaun Malik McAllister-Lawrence, 19, was arrested in Columbia County with the assistance of the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force and the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.
He’d been named as a suspect in the Nov. 5 murder of Isaiah McKnight, 20, at Glenn Hills Drive and Claudia Drive.
After the shooting, emergency medical crews were called to the 3600 block of Goldfinch Drive, where the victim lived. They found McKnight and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
McAllister-Lawrence had active arrest warrants for felony murder and aggravated assault, according to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Another suspect, Frashawn Sankoh, 18, was arrested on May 25 and is charged with murder and aggravated assault, according to inmate bookings.
According to the arrest warrant, a co-defendant drove Sankoh and McKnight to the incident location, where they fired shots at two other subjects.
The warrant states the subjects shot back. This is when McKnight was shot and died as a result, the warrant states.
The shooting is among a string of them that have claimed more than 100 lives across the CSRA in the past year and a half.
The violent crime has affected communities large and small on both sides of the Savannah River, but Augusta as the largest city has been hit especially hard.
Authorities have blamed much of the problem on gangs. Many of the suspects and victims, like McKnight, have been young men.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – One person has died after a motorcycle crash on Riverwatch Parkway, according to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Officials say the crash happened on Friday night at 9:50 p.m. near mile marker 3.5.
Upon arrivals, deputies say they found male subject laying near the concrete barriers.
The Richmond County Coroner’s Office arrived on scene and pronounced the male deceased, officials say.
The coroner’s office has not released the name of the victim yet.
We are working to learn more.
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