{"id":260,"date":"2025-04-25T15:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=260"},"modified":"2025-05-20T11:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:44:28","slug":"african-community-health-fair","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/event\/african-community-health-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"African Community Health Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>African Immigrant Family Services presents:\u00a0<strong>African Community Health &amp; Wellness Fair, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2025 African Community Health Fair is an organized event initiated by African Immigrant Family Services (AIFS) to promote health and wellness within a specific community. This fair brings together healthcare providers, community organizations, and local businesses to offer various health-related services, screenings, and information to the public. The goal is to increase awareness of health issues, provide preventive care, and encourage community members to adopt healthy lifestyles.\u00a0This FREE health event will provide a valuable service to our African immigrant &amp; refugee community and is expected to draw a large number of children, parents, and seniors from the community to participate and learn about health and safety issues.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Event\u00a0Overview\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Event:\u00a0<\/strong>2025 Annual African Community Health &amp; Wellness Fair<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Date: May 31 &#8211; June 1, 2025\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>Autism Center of Nebraska (9012 Q St, Omaha, NE 68127) &amp; Papillion Landing Soccer Fields<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Theme: <\/strong><em>&#8220;Social Determinants of African Immigrant and Refugee Health: Rethinking Integration, Challenges, and Empowerment.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This event brings together healthcare professionals, community organizations, and volunteers to improve health outcomes for African immigrant and refugee populations through\u00a0<strong>health screenings, cultural exchange, and community engagement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Volunteer Roles &amp; Responsibilities\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We are seeking\u00a0<strong>dedicated volunteers\u00a0<\/strong>to assist in various areas before, during, and after the event.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Volunteer Registration Link: <\/strong><u>https:\/\/forms.gle\/NLeKPbDg8yabQhHRA<\/u>\u00a0\ufffd\ufffd\u00a0<strong>Deadline to Sign Up:\u00a0<\/strong>May 15, 2025<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For any\u00a0<strong>questions or additional information<\/strong>, please contact\u00a0<strong>Adama Sawadogo\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0<strong>(402) 739-2508\u00a0<\/strong>or email\u00a0<strong>contact@aifs-usa.org<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>AIFS Event Team\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">African Immigrant Family Services (AIFS)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">402-739-2508<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">3706 S 132nd St, Omaha, NE 68144<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">contact@aifs-usa.org<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Immigrant Family Services presents:\u00a0African Community Health &amp; Wellness Fair, 2025 The 2025 African Community Health Fair is an organized event initiated by African Immigrant Family Services (AIFS) to promote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":277,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-260","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/260\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/cancercenter\/outreach\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}