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The Ingham County Health Department will be providing immunizations, including the COVID19 and flu vaccines, at no-cost to families on Thursday, September 16th from 1:00-4:00PM. This event will take place at the Dr. Eva Evans Welcome Center located at 2400 Pattengill Avenue in Lansing. No appointment is necessary. If your child needs immunizations, please bring them to this no-cost immunization event. We look forward to seeing you there!

September begins Hispanic Heritage Month, show support at Greater Lansing businesses As we move into Hispanic Heritage month we highlight the presence and culture of the Latinx, Chicanx and Hispanic businesses in Greater Lansing.

What a great day - our students always inspire us!

Great day celebrating these students’ educational achievements!

As we passed our one year point of virtual learning because of COVID-19, the students wrote sentences about their experiences. I pulled some common phrases from their sentences to share. Wow, it's been a year!

Have Questions? Need Support? Speak another Language?
Call the Lansing School District Bilingual Language Lines:
Arabic - 517-755-1375
Burmese - 517-755-1372
English - 517-755-1370
French - 517-755-1378
Nepali - 517-755-1373
Somali - 517-755-1374
Spanish - 517-755-1371
Swahili - 517-755-1376
Vietnamese - 517-755-1377
**When leaving a message, please make sure to leave the student’s name, student’s school and a return phone number**

Greetings - still working to get accurate and translated vaccine information into the hands of our communities. Please feel free to share widely.

CDC Resources in Languages other than English:
https://wwwn.cdc.gov/pubs/other-languages?Sort=Lang%3A%3Aasc

University of Minnesota Translated Materials Library
https://nrcrim.umn.edu/health-education/translated-materials-library?mc_cid=32df2ce94e&mc_eid=112daf7f92

Coronavirus Alternative Language website (State of Michigan)
https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98178_98541---,00.html

Ingham County Health Department COVID Resources
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Bi1Xaxe10oNR63GYz53PlasYNSF9y4ch
OR
https://tinyurl.com/ICHDCoVaxOutreach

Refugee Development Center & STVCC materials
https://refugeedevelopmentcenter.org/covid-19-vaccine-information/

The Burma Center COVID materials (multiple languages of Burma)
https://www.burmacenterusa.org/

5th In our series, Tell Your Story, is Birere.

My Life Story
My name is Birere Serutoke, I was born in The Congo, or DRC, on February 14th, 1968. I have a wife and ten children. I also have a mom, her name is Nyraneza. My daddy’s name is Birere, he died in 2009. He also had ten children; six boys and four girls.
In elementary school and the first three years of high school in the Congo, I studied French. I went to medical school for one year, and I went to Bible school when I got to Rwanda. Now, I have a theology diploma.
I was born into a poor family. My daddy, nor my mom got a chance to go to school. Yet, my dad did everything he could for us to grow up in good condition.
In 1999, war happened in The Congo and that is when I took my family to Rwanda to be refugees. As a refugee, I had nine kids. I spent 17 years as a refugee. As a refugee, I did not have a job, or anything to help my family. But Rwanda was able to send us here in 2016. I appreciate everyone who helps refugees that are here and those that are still in Rwanda.
Now, my family and I are living the best life, just like I wanted. I eat whenever I want. I sleep well. Back in Rwanda, I used to eat anything they gave me. My kids have school to go to, and they are growing in good condition. I’ve been growing through all of this too. I thank God for the reason that now I started to go to adult school. I’m learning a lot of new things, like a new language. My teacher’s name is Deborah.