"Empowering Elderly Immigrants by Bridging Linguistic Divides."
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What Do We Do?
Heritage Bridges is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving cultural diversity. We hope to bridge the gap between elderly immigrants and their new communities. We provide resources and opportunities for elderly immigrants to engage in unfamiliar environments.
Most importantly, we build meaningful connections with elderly immigrants to preserve and pass down our cultural practices to future generations.
Heritage Bridges offers a variety of public programs to support this mission, with a particular focus on empowering immigrant communities to overcome language and cultural barriers. Our programs include weekly English classes that emphasize practical language skills for day-to-day life, and classes for elder adults to build confidence in navigating new environments. Additional programs include calligraphy classes, AAPI events, and more!
Why Heritage Bridges?
Heritagebridges.org was created due to my peculiar initiative in bridging the gaps between the young and old generations. When my grandparents immigrated to the United States in their late 70’s, I recognized the lack of empowerment and resources for elderly immigrants.
Heritage Bridges was inspired from my grandparents’ immigration journey and the struggles they faced due to limited resources for the elderly immigrant community. Witnessing their challenges opened my eyes to how often this community is overlooked. Many elder immigrants encounter barriers in language, access, and belonging.
Honoring My Grandparents' Story
Growing up hearing my grandparents share stories and practicing traditions together in the United States taught me the importance of passing down my heritage. This further drives me to keep our traditions alive for future generations.
Thus, maintaining long term connections with elderly immigrants helps sustain our cultural understanding.
Core Values
The Network For Social Justice & WSCC
With support from the Network for Social Justice and WSCC, we establish events celebrating culture recognition. Spanning from, Spring Festivals, Winter Festivals, The annual AAPI event during AAPI Heritage Month, and more!