Denver art contest aims to promote COVID-19 youth vaccines

DENVER – One native group is getting inventive on the subject of encouraging youth teams to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Servicios de La Raza (Providers for the Individuals) is a neighborhood nonprofit in Denver that gives quite a lot of bilingual human providers to the neighborhood.

The group’s youth management program is organizing an artwork contest aimed to inspire Latinx and Chicano youth to get vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19.

It’s known as La Raza Youth Management Artwork Contest. The theme is the “Significance of motivating Latinx/Chicano youth to obtain their COVID-19 vaccine.”

Artwork items will be submitted on-line by means of the group’s Fb web page and web site.

Contributors have to be from Aurora or Denver space faculties.

“The artwork contest is for all BIPOC youth. BIPOC which means Black, Indigenous and Individuals of Colour youth, they must be between the ages of 12 and 19,” mentioned Alondra Gil-Gonzalez.

Gonzalez is a member of the artwork contest’s youth committee. “Lots of people have misplaced members of the family, and I’ve misplaced pals who had been my age to COVID,” she added.

In line with the Colorado Division of Well being and Surroundings, Colorado’s Hispanic inhabitants has the bottom vaccination price within the state.

Web site information exhibits that solely round 38% of the Hispanic inhabitants has acquired at the least one dose of the vaccine.

Denver7 spoke with one native scholar, Daniela Fernandez, who says she plans on submitting a bit of paintings.

“I like creating artwork. I’m in lots of like artwork courses, and revel in, like placing my very own perspective on issues,” mentioned Fernandez. “My course of is to take massive well-known leaders which are massive components of Chicano management, and discover methods to include it into extra fashionable paintings.”

The deadline to submit a bit of paintings is Feb. 14. The winner can be introduced on Feb. 19.

The winner will get $1,000 in addition to have their paintings displayed throughout bus commercial areas throughout Denver and Aurora.