CIANA’s Outreach team joined NYC Health + Hospitals, the Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit, and Mayor Eric Adams himself to close out H+H’s NYC Care Week of Action last Saturday. Over the past three years, NYC Care has provided free and low-cost healthcare to over 110,000 New York City residents who cannot afford or do not qualify for other forms of healthcare, and that number is growing. To celebrate its nearly-third anniversary, NYC H+H and the PEU spent the week of July 25 go

At the start of the pandemic in 2020, then-high school freshman Sadab Sharif had to share just one computer with his four siblings. “If we only have one computer, then only one person can do a class. What do the other people have to do in order to get to their online class?” Sharif, who is now a rising senior, recalls. “When you don’t have technology, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, it’s definitely really hard to pursue an education.” Sharif’s family is one of 50