Association of Mexicans in
North Carolina
BULDING THE FUTURE OF
OUR LOCAL
LATINO COMMUNITIES
Association of Mexicans in
North Carolina
• Fostering the Appreciation,
Understanding, and Prosperity of
the Mexican and Latino
Community trough Culture,
Leadership, Health and
Education.
Building collaboration
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Six Chapters in North Carolina
Duplin County
Wayne County
Wilson County
Lenoir County
Pitt County
Edgecombe County
Building collaboration
Community Projects
 Visit of the Guatemalan Consul to Mt.
Olive, NC and Kinston, NC Event
sponsored by AMEXCAN, Mount Olive
College and Lenoir Community College.
 Visit of the Mexican Consul to Greenville,
NC. Event sponsored by AMEXCAN,
Lenoir Community College and Pitt
Community College.
Building collaboration
Community Projects
 Health campaign in Duplin, Wayne,
Greene, Wilson, Edgecombe, Pitt and
Lenoir counties. Event sponsored by
AMEXCAN, Posada Guadalupana church,
and Agua Viva y Espíritu Santo church.
Building collaboration
Community projects
 Annual Community Festival in Snow Hill, NC.
Event sponsored by AMEXCAN, Lenoir
Community College, and Greene County Middle
School.
 Six consecutive years sponsoring the Raza
festival for eastern North Carolina with
collaborators such as Lenoir Community
College, Mount Olive College, and many others
Building collaboration
Community projects
 Workshops on natural disasters in eastern
North Carolina. Events sponsored by
AMEXCAN and Community and Crisis,
Inc.
 Community Information Fair in Kinston,
NC. Event sponsored by AMEXCAN and
Lenoir County Cooperative Extension.
Building collaboration
Community projects
 Annual Spring Festival in Greenville, NC.
Event sponsored by AMEXCAN and Pitt
Community College.
• Annual Latino Festival in Wilson, NC.
Event sponsored by AMEXCAN and
Wilson County Cooperative Extension
Center.
Building collaboration
Community Projects
 Annual Latino Leadership Summit Event
sponsored by AMEXCAN and East
Carolina University.
 Annual Latino Community Forum Event
sponsored by AMEXCAN and The Eastern
North Carolina Latin-American Coalition.
Building collaboration
Community projects
 Support Mexican research project to
investigate the emigrant community and its
families in Easter North Carolina
(Licenciadas Olivia Resendiz y Blanca
Ivett Vázquez). Event sponsored by
AMEXCAN and La Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana (UNAM) in Mexico City.
Building collaboration
Community Projects
 Presentation of “Best Practices in the
Integration of New Immigrants into North
Carolina Communities” by Dr. David
Griffith. Event sponsored by AMEXCAN
and East Carolina University.
Building collaboration
 AMEXCAN and the National Alliance of
Latin American and Caribbean
Communities (NALACC) travel to Mexico,
Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to
visit with legislators and nonprofit
organizations to discuss their migrant
communities’ problems in the U.S. Event
sponsored by AMEXCAN and NALACC
LULAC in North Carolina
• Sponsored an information workshop with
representatives of LULAC (League of
United Latin American Citizens). Goal; To
start a LULAC Chapter with AMEXCAN in
North Carolina.
What is LULAC?
• Founded in 1922, LULAC has115,000 members
and is the largest and oldest Hispanic
Organization in the United States. LULAC
advances the economic condition, educational
attainment, political influence, health and civil
rights of Hispanic Americans through
community-based programs operating at more
than 700 LULAC councils nationwide. The
organization involves and serves all Hispanic
nationality groups
Building collaboration
 The Association of Mexicans in
North Carolina (AMEXCAN),
has reached out to more than
45,000 people with these
programs and services during
this time frame.
Building collaboration
Recommendations
 Build relationships with Local Latinos
Leaders, Latino Organizations and
Other Community Organizations.
 Understand N.C.-U.S. Latino Lifestyles.
& customs.
 No “miracle or fast” solutions.
MUCHAS GRACIAS
¿PREGUNTAS?
Juvencio Rocha Peralta
Association of Mexicans in
North Carolina
252-258-9967 or 919-394-8218
jrrocha@embarqmail.com
www.amexcannc.org