Once it’s complete, the center will offer essential services including a health and wellness clinic, gathering spaces and transitional and affordable housing.
SAN DIEGO — A project near Chollas Pkwy and University Avenue is underway to create a Refugee and Immigrant Culture Hub. It is a center set to offer wrap-around services once it’s completed in the heart of Mid-City.
“What’s really unique about it and sort of first of its kind is that it is not just centering and serving the refugees of this area but it is designed and will be owned by the community,” Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA) Director of Strategic Partnership Rachael Lozano Castro said.
Lozano Castro tells CBS 8, Pana is the group stewarding the process holding the land purchased last year. She adds the group is partnering with more than a dozen refugee serving organizations in the City Heights area.
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