It sounds like a fairy tale or a feel-good movie hit. One of the planet s richest women donates millions to a little mountain town non-profit serving immigrant families since 2011 in a variety of ways, mostly involving children.
The local nonprofit takes a multigenerational approach to providing services to immigrant communities in the Roaring Fork Valley. With the $2 million gift, they’re hoping to extend those to western Garfield County.
El Busesito (“the little bus”) is a preschool on wheels that delivers free early childhood and family engagement programs to Latino immigrant families in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley.
Carbondale could be the first Roaring Fork Valley and Garfield County municipality to appoint a standing Latino advisory council to advise the town and ensure Latino community concerns are heard. Roughly a third of Carbondale’s.