People living in border communities may not know about the Border Health Foundation, 3365 N. Campbell Ave.

They focus to educate and help "at-risk", low-income communities around the U.S., particularly neighborhoods on our U.S.-Mexico borders.

The staff at the organization especially strive to inform residents on abstinence, tobacco awareness, HIV prevention and proper diet through different programs:

Their Copper Basin Food Pantry serves over 14,000 people annually and provides food, financial assistance and nutrition classes to people in need of these services.

¡Tu Puedes! Prevention Program is designed to educate people ages 18 to 24 years old on tobacco awareness and prevention through communal activities, projects and support groups.

The Senderos Project (Abstinence Education) delivers information to migrant families and parents by looking at cultural and language factors. The adolescents targeted are between 12 and 18 years old. Information sessions are held in schools, churches, day camps and implemented through school curriculum.

Besides having an emphasis on the Latino population, the foundation also reaches out to Native Americans, African Americans, Pacific Islanders and Asian Pacific Islanders.

What is the thing called health? Simply a state in which the individual happens transiently to be perfectly adapted to his environment. Obviously, such states cannot be common, for the environment is in constant flux.
~ -H. L. Mencken