The power of promotoras: How community health workers helped residents cope with COVID-19
Inez Herrera, left, and Alma Renteria, both Doña Ana County promotoras, practice a blanket-making technique taught at one of a number of classes offered to residents at community centers in the outlying areas. Promotoras, or community health workers, have helped residents in rural areas navigate the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and aftermath.
Southern NM community of Chaparral had trouble accessing COVID-19 relief funds
Jeff Gore, a longtime resident of Chaparral, says the community is a quiet one that is not trusting of the government or the media. (Photo by Reyes Mata III)

