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A Place to Heal and Call Home: BK’s Mixteca Offers Immigrants a Helping Hand Upon Arrival.
A Place to Heal and Call Home: BK’s Mixteca Offers Immigrants a Helping Hand Upon Arrival.

The nonprofit works on the frontlines of the migrant crisis, helping asylum seekers and immigrants from all over the world as they struggle to call NYC home.

Asylum seekers among some of newest graduates of job training course with Brooklyn-based nonprofit
Asylum seekers among some of newest graduates of job training course with Brooklyn-based nonprofit

Asylum seekers are one step closer to the American Dream after completing a 16-week Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) job training course with the help of the Brookyln-based nonprofit Mixteca.

Asylum seekers receive free bikes in Greenwood
Asylum seekers receive free bikes in Greenwood

This first batch of bikes has been collected since January and refurbished for safe use. These asylum seekers all have a new set of wheels thanks to a collaboration between Mixteca, an organization that helps provide resources and workplace training for asylum seekers, along with Bike New York, city agencies and other nonprofits.

How to Donate and Help Migrants Seeking Asylum in NYC
How to Donate and Help Migrants Seeking Asylum in NYC

This is a typical Saturday at Mixteca, a staple in the neighborhood of South Park Slope that has helped immigrants and local residents with services for decades. Since the arrival of more than 45,000 migrants in NYC since last spring, many organizations like Mixteca have relied on volunteers and donations to bring critical assistance to them. Documented visited and spoke with some of these organizations and made a list of organizations helping asylum seekers where New Yorkers can volunteer or donate.

Sunset Park Holds ‘Day of Unity’ After Subway Shooting
Sunset Park Holds ‘Day of Unity’ After Subway Shooting

Community members leave flowers around the 36th Street subway station. Residents gathered to pray and call for an end to gun violence after a shooting in the station on April 12

Sunset Park takes steps toward healing at ‘Day of Unity’ and prayer vigil days after subway attack
Sunset Park takes steps toward healing at ‘Day of Unity’ and prayer vigil days after subway attack

Sunset Park residents hung flowers around the entrance to the 36th Street subway station at a vigil one week after a gunman injured 29 people at the station. The community is gathering together to take its first steps forward after the attack disrupted the close-knit neighborhood.

BP Reynoso Hosts Comedy Show for Women’s History Month
BP Reynoso Hosts Comedy Show for Women’s History Month

As part of his drive to reopen Brooklyn Borough Hall to public events, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso on Thursday hosted a comedy show in celebration of Women’s History Month at the historic structure in Downtown Brooklyn.

Trabajadores excluidos de planes de ayuda por pandemia protestan en Manhattan: ¿Qué están exigiendo?
Trabajadores excluidos de planes de ayuda por pandemia protestan en Manhattan: ¿Qué están exigiendo?

Featured: Elsa Samaniego, Promotora (interviewed) Nicole Rojas,Community Organizer, Steven Espinoza, Community Advocate in background)

Vecinos en Sunset Park agradecen por la salud, por estar juntos, por las ben­di­ciones recibidas
Vecinos en Sunset Park agradecen por la salud, por estar juntos, por las ben­di­ciones recibidas

Featured: Lorena Kourousias

20 Brooklyn Nonprofit Finalists Selected for $100K SPARK Prize
20 Brooklyn Nonprofit Finalists Selected for $100K SPARK Prize

Featured: image (Lorena Kourousias, volunteers)

Tax Preparers Charge Up to $600 To Send Applications for the Excluded Workers Fund
Tax Preparers Charge Up to $600 To Send Applications for the Excluded Workers Fund

Featured: Nicole Rojas, Community Organizer

The Struggle to Improve Vaccination Rates Among Latinos in New York
The Struggle to Improve Vaccination Rates Among Latinos in New York

Vast disparities in immunization levels persist between the city’s communities.

Madres migrantes se manifiestan en DC en apoyo a los trabajadores esenciales
Madres migrantes se manifiestan en DC en apoyo a los trabajadores esenciales

Decenas de familias inmigrantes salieron este miércoles a las calles del Distrito para alzar su voz a favor de un camino hacia la ciudadanía para miles de trabajadores esenciales

More Than A Third Of New Yorkers Now Fully Vaccinated, Cuomo Says
More Than A Third Of New Yorkers Now Fully Vaccinated, Cuomo Says

A man exits a mobile vaccination van after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine administered by NYC Test & Trace Corps in partnership with Mixteca, a community organization serving primarily Spanish-speaking and indigenous Latin American populations in Sunset Park.

Deliverers Unite in the Face of Adversity
Deliverers Unite in the Face of Adversity

Deliveristas, representing their home country of Mexico, prepare to make their way downtown. (Photo by Jasmine Fernandez for NY City Lens)

New York City launches walk-in vaccinations without appointment for those 50 and older
New York City launches walk-in vaccinations without appointment for those 50 and older

Maria Meneses, left, speaks with Mixteca community organizer Nicole Rojas while waiting to get a COVID-19 vaccination in a mobile vaccination van parked on a street in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, Monday, March 29, 2021, in New York. As part of New York City’s ongoing efforts to increase access to the COVID-19 vaccine citywide, NYC Test & Trace Corps added mobile vaccination to its community vaccine clinic program Monday, launching a clinic-on-wheels with community partner Mixteca, a community organization serving the Spanish-speaking and indigenous Latin American population in the area.

Undocumented New Yorkers Waiting for Excluded Workers Fund
Undocumented New Yorkers Waiting for Excluded Workers Fund

New York state Democrats say there are at least 275,000 immigrants who would benefit from a $2.1 billion Excluded Workers Fund.

NY to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to those over 30
NY to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to those over 30

New York state residents over 30 will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations starting Tuesday, and everyone over 16 will be eligible starting April 6, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.

Sunset Park: Street Vendors vs. Gentrification
Sunset Park: Street Vendors vs. Gentrification

As the sun peered through a cloudy afternoon Saturday, Lizette Canongo, 20, and her mother, Gabriela, sold the last of their tinga—a specialty of stewed, shredded chicken from Puebla, Mexico, her mother’s home state—at Sunset Park in Brooklyn

Vaccination bus to help NYC neighborhoods in need
Vaccination bus to help NYC neighborhoods in need

With many in New York still struggling to find appointments for the COVID-19 vaccines, the city is now partnering with community organizations, like Mixteca, to place mobile vaccine buses in neighborhoods in the most need of help.

Sunset Park nonprofit works to get Latin community inoculated against COVID-19
Sunset Park nonprofit works to get Latin community inoculated against COVID-19

Sunset Park nonprofit works to get Latin community inoculated against COVID-19