2008 Annual Report – Reporte Anual 2008

Garifuna Pioneer will  be at the Garifuna Reunion

The Pioneer of the Garifuna Movement in the United States of America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2009

Contacts:  José Francisco Ávila (718) 402-7700

New York – The Garifuna Coalition USA, Inc. a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization is happy to announce that Ms Dionisia (Ms Nicha) Amaya will attend the Garifuna Reunion in St Vincent and the Grenadines (Yurumein) scheduled for July 18^th – 23^rd

Ms. Amaya is a seventy six year old retired teacher from the New York City Board of Education who now resides in Honduras, where she operates the Barauda Bilingual School. She is the pioneer of the Garifuna Movement in the United States and as a result  was featured in the book Making it in America: A source book on Eminent Ethnic Americans by Elliott Robert Barkan and was honored for her community organizing  work with a tribute by Congressman Edplphus Townsend from New York City in the United States House of Representatives in 2003. Read more

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