UNITED HEARTS OF ARIZONA-CORAZONES UNIDOS DE ARIZONA

The mission of United Hearts of Arizona is to improve the lives of children and families in Arizona by providing resources that will help them to be prepared in their personal lives, their professional accomplishments, and be responsible citizens. To that end we provide the following opportunities and aid for the residents of the City of South Tucson and southern Tucson: Annual Shoe and Jacket Drive, Folklorico Classes, Breast Cancer education conference, and helping out families in need throughout the year. Education is very important in this community and making sure we remove as many obstacles as possible to achieving that education is key to getting families out of poverty. If a child does not have a warm coat or warm shoes to get to school on a cold winter day, they may not attend at all. This is unacceptable. UHA wants to foster a better education experience for all children in our community, so we provide a new winter coat, new sneakers, a new book and personal items for students ranging in age from pre-school to 8th grade. So far, we have served over 2,000 families with this program. The Folklorico classes are free to the public and we 3 sessions a year. The total number of students served is over 500. Each year in October we provide THE ONLY Bi-Lingual (Spanish/English) Breast Cancer Conference in Tucson. We have had over 300 attendees during the last 3 years of the conference.