Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (LASM). A few years ago member of the USA Congressional Black Caucus visited Cuba and noted the small amount number of doctor available in Black and poor areas in American. When Rep. Bennie Thompson said his Mississippi district needed doctors, then President Fidel Castro announced scholarships for youth from under-served communities in the U.S.
It was later decided that people should apply through IFCO/Pastors for Peace.
( ) Currently 146 U.S. students study at LASM with full scholarships, including 16 in the their new class. Forty seven students have now graduated and two are residents in U.S. hospitals now. After the earthquake disaster in Haiti in February of 2010, many of the LASM graduates volunteered to go the serve there.
Currently there are two Detroit students attending LASM on a full scholarship. Contact us at IFCO
418 W 145 Street
Harlem, NY 10031
www.ifconews.org
[email protected]
(212) 926-5757
IFCO’s sponsorship — and we are so full of gratitude for all the extraordinary support we have received in this challenging year, especially since the passing of our beloved founding director Rev. Lucius Walker, Jr. * The Rev. Lucius Walker: Aug. 3 1930 – Sept. 7, 2010.
Rev. Walker in 1967, became the founding director of the Interrelations Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO). In 1969, IFCO helped sponsor the National Black Economic Development Conference in Detroit , were the “The Black Manifesto” was introduced by James Foreman and adopted. Rev. Walker went on to lead 21 Friend shipment Caravans carrying material aid to Cuba.
Rev. Lucius Walker died of a heart attack in New York.
He was 80 years of age.
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