{"id":168,"date":"2024-01-24T15:56:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T15:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskknowhow.org\/?post_type=si_story&p=168"},"modified":"2024-02-16T15:55:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:55:51","slug":"aqui-nos-cuidamos","status":"publish","type":"si_story","link":"https:\/\/riskknowhow.org\/risk-know-how-around-the-world\/stories\/aqui-nos-cuidamos\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating risk know-how amongst marginalized communities in Puerto Rico during Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Community leaders provide important safety nets for vulnerable and marginalized populations in Puerto Rico. Confronted by colonialism, government and institutional failures, austerity, and natural phenomena, and political disasters, these individuals take outsized and often volunteer roles to support groups that are disproportionately impacted by these issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nScience can play a critical role in leaders\u2019 ability to meet their communities needs and priorities, from preventing mosquito-borne diseases, to promoting mental health, to creating evacuation plans for coastal zones. However, they don\u2019t always have access to scientific resources that can help them meet the needs and priorities of their people.<\/p>\nAqu\u00ed Nos Cuidamos\u2019 community engagement leaders<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Creation of Aqu\u00ed Nos Cuidamos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
To provide people in Puerto Rico with timely, accurate, culturally relevant and engaging science information to promote the health and wellbeing of communities, in 2020 the nonprofit organization Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR) created Aqu\u00ed Nos Cuidamos, which translates to \u201chere we take care of each other\u201d. This project builds on CienciaPR\u2019s almost two decades of experience putting science in service of Puerto Rico through culturally relevant science communication, public engagement, and education, and fostering the civic participation of the Puerto Rican scientific community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n