SOUTHEAST HALIFAX ENVIRONMENTAL REAWAKENING

描述 这个项目的长期目标是改善环境卫生 通过支持基层领导， 社区赋权。 南部偏远的农村地区有很高的水平， 贫困和失业。 低地价、工资水平和缺乏 政治影响使它们成为污染的易感地区 工业和有毒废物。 该项目旨在产生长期影响 加强技术和政治能力， 农村非洲裔美国人成为研究的合作伙伴， 社区教育，并围绕环境卫生问题组织。 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员。 该项目围绕一个强大的 社区组织，关心的公民蒂勒里（CCT），位于 北卡罗来纳州的哈利法克斯县。 哈利法克斯的人口占 非洲裔美国人，其中40%生活在贫困中; Tillery地区为98% 黑色. 东南哈利法克斯环境觉醒汇集了CCT， 哈利法克斯县卫生部和环境卫生科学家从 北卡罗来纳州大学公共卫生学院。 这个联盟 将努力扩大参与预防和补救 环境卫生问题，编制教育和组织材料， 为在其他地区使用，向其他东部地区的社区提供外联服务， 北卡罗来纳州县，并提供农村环境卫生培训 和环境正义问题的课程。 东南 哈利法克斯环境觉醒将重新连接孤立的农村社区 基本的环境价值观，已经成为休眠， 居民与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.