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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Since the opening of this year, Nicholas Madrigal has been moving arsenic the Latino Liaison for the City of Fresno.
"The Latino colonisation coming successful from the southbound of the borderline to this metropolis needs representation," said Madrigal. "I deliberation having the practice and having idiosyncratic that has entree to resources oregon that tin span the spread and tin link them to the close assets is life-changing."
Madrigal present represents the largest demographic successful Fresno County, having the accidental to outreach and physique connections with the Latino community.
The relation successful the Office of Community Affairs aims to person Madrigal link services and resources to Latinos wrong the city.
Each week helium works with antithetic community-based organizations, similar the Civic Center, Centro la Familia, and the Education and Leadership Foundation to marque definite that erstwhile radical travel to him with a question, helium has an answer.
“I deliberation the astir important happening that I person heard is that radical are precise honored to person idiosyncratic from the metropolis represent them and knowing the needs of the Latino community, and getting them the close resources, truthful they tin person a amended life," said Madrigal. "And we tin assistance supply solutions for the issues that they person connected a day-to-day basis.”
Born successful Mexico, Madrigal came to the U.S. erstwhile helium was conscionable 12 years old.
Growing up his begetter worked successful the fields, teaching Madrigal to enactment hard portion emphasizing the powerfulness of a bully acquisition successful bid to person a amended life.
Now his parents are arrogant to spot him successful this role, staying humble and keeping the values helium was raised with adjacent to his heart.
For Madrigal, speaking Spanish and English is an important portion of what helium does each day, translating, portion besides making definite materials are successful Spanish truthful that Latino and Latina concern owners recognize and bash not person to spell implicit different hurdle.
“Once I talk Spanish to them, it opens the speech and I announcement that they tin spot maine astir antithetic issues that they don't privation to stock with anyone, particularly immigrants with antithetic presumption successful this country," said Madrigal. "They tin travel to me, they tin talk to maine openly and everything is confident. And if I person the resources wrong the metropolis I supply to them, if don't person the resources, past I tin nonstop them to different community-based organizations."
Madrigal hopes to promote young Latinos to instrumentality vantage of resources, get a bully education, and to marque affirmative decisions successful their beingness portion being arrogant of wherever they travel from.
