​ELPASO VOZ Lafayette leaders sent this letter to senators and house representatives to ensure they know that the Latino community does not want their children to do testing during this challenging year.

Our very own board member, Eugenia Brady, received the 2021 International Human Rights Award from the United Nations Association of Boulder County.

This award recognizes individuals in Boulder County who have contributed substantially during the previous year (or longer)  to making the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights a living, vital, and effective document. This declaration identifies such human rights as the right to life, liberty, and security of person, the right to privacy and freedom of movement, the right to an education, and the right to an adequate standard of living, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care. (UNA of Boulder County)

Read more about Eugenia and this award in the Longmont Leader here.

​This Fall, the Executive Director of the ELPASO program, Tere Garcia, reached out to her friend Chris Itano to ask if the Fellowship could provide tutoring for many of their students who were struggling with online learning. Chris helped Oscar Flores and ELPASO in providing the Las Posadas celebrations that took place at the Fellowship the previous three years. Chris brought the request for tutoring help to the Social Justice Council and I started coordinating it. We had a wonderful response from the Fellowship. There were a number of trainings led by Tere Garcia and Carol Pranschke helped with administering background checks.

​Now we have nineteen tutors who have been matched with a student and their family. Each tutoring pair also has a coordinator to help with communication.