SOUTHEAST HALIFAX ENVIRONMENTAL REAWAKENING

描述 这个项目的长期目标是改善环境健康 支持基层领导和支持南方农村的条件 社区赋权。南方与世隔绝的农村地区有很高的 贫穷和失业的问题。低地价、低工资水平和缺乏 政治影响使它们成为易受污染的地区 工业和有毒废物。这个项目寻求产生长期的影响 通过促进技术和政治能力来解决环境种族主义问题 农村非裔美国人成为研究合作伙伴，参与 社区教育，并围绕环境健康问题组织起来。 这将通过与大学科学家的伙伴关系来实现 和当地的卫生专业人士。该项目的中心是一个强大的 社区组织，关注的耕种公民(CCT)，位于 北卡罗来纳州哈利法克斯县。哈利法克斯的人口有50% 非洲裔美国人，其中40%生活在贫困中；蒂勒里区98% 黑色。东南部哈利法克斯环境觉醒将CCT、The 哈利法克斯县卫生局和来自 北卡罗来纳大学公共卫生学院。这个联盟 将努力扩大对预防和补救艾滋病的参与 环境健康问题，开发教育和组织材料 在其他地区使用，向其他东部社区提供外展服务 北卡罗来纳州，并提供农村环境健康培训 向公共卫生专业的学生介绍环境正义问题。东南 哈利法克斯环境觉醒将重新连接与世隔绝的农村社区 具有基本的环境价值观，这些价值观已经成为农村的休眠 居民们已经与这片土地失去了亲密的联系。

DESCRIPTION The long-term object of this project is to improve environmental health conditions in the rural South by supporting grassroots leadership and community empowerment. Isolated rural areas of the south have high levels of poverty and unemployment. Low land prices, wage levels and lack of political influence have made them susceptible locations for polluting industries and toxic wastes. This project seeks to make a long-term impact on environmental racism by facilitating technical and political capacities of rural African-Americans to be partners in research, to engage in community education, and to organize around environmental health issues. This will be accomplished through partnerships with university scientists and local health professionals. The project is centered around a strong community organization, the Concerned Citizens of Tillery (CCT), located in Halifax County, North Carolina. The population of Halifax is 50% African-American, 40% of whom live in poverty; the Tillery area is 98% Black. Southeast Halifax Environmental Reawakening brings together CCT, the Halifax County Health Department, and environmental health scientists from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. This coalition will work to expand participation in prevention and remediation of environmental health problems, develop educational and organizing material for use in other areas, provide outreach to communities in other eastern North Carolina counties, and offer training in rural environmental health and environmental justice issues to public health students. Southeast Halifax Environmental Reawakening will reconnect isolated, rural communities with fundamental environmental values that have become dormant as rural residents have lost intimate connections with the land.