Amid “fear and misinformation,” this Arizona health center is serving borderland communities

Brenda Sánchez joined the Southeast Arizona Health Education Center in Nogales as an undergraduate intern. She went straight to work on a project that was close to her heart: helping community health workers support farmworkers in Arizona’s borderland communities. That was 2018.

Sánchez helped develop the Agua Limpia Health Curriculum, a training for community health workers to address water quality in a local Cochise County farmworker community. It not only addressed the systemic issues around clean drinking water, but also gave people tools like water filters to get access to cleaner water immediately..