To help them apply for New York City Government-issued ID, or IDNYC, in English, as well as “fair fares,” the public transit discount program, the Mixteca organization looks after the immigrant population. , every Thursday and Saturday at their support tables.
“Here we help them directly, from start to finish, so that they can get a service, such as city identification,” explained Lorena Kourousias, executive director of the Mixteca Organization.
Newly arrived immigrants, as well as people who have been in the city longer, can visit the organization directly, located between 23rd and 5th streets in Brooklyn.
To make an appointment, you can call (718) 965-4795 or schedule a service through social networks or the website of the Mixteco.
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“We make an appointment with him, explain what will happen, what the procedure is, how long it will take and we realized that this helps people a lot, especially the people we have now who are new to this country,” Kourousias said.
People, added the executive director, “who have no idea even of the benefits they can have, of the services that can be offered to them and what their rights are, for example. That they don’t have to pay for those services, that the services are free, or that possession of a New York State ID can help them with other procedures. “
“There are many other needs that we are not covering and well, from here at Mixteca what we do is try to channel and try to collect just that information for when we have donations or other types of organizations or people who can help us, so contact them and tell them. that they can always be here, ”said Ana Salgado, organizer of the Mixteca Community.
In addition to these services, every Saturday Mixteca organizes solidarity markets where they deliver bags of fruit, vegetables and other foods to the community that requests it. This, from 10:30 until the delivery of the last bag.
In addition to Spanish, the organization translates critical information for immigrants into six indigenous languages: Nahuatl / ki’che / me’pha / mixe / Zapotec / mam.
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