MISSION & BACKGROUND OF DEL AMO ACTION COMMITTEE
Mission
- We believe everyone deserves a healthy and safe community to live in.
- We believe policy changes that promote environmental equity will lead to healthier communities.
Background
The community established the Del Amo Action Committee in 1994. The area of our efforts reaches to where the health impacts end. Our community is bound by Normandie Ave. to the West, Vermont Ave. to the East, W Clarion Dr. to the South, and Del Amo Alley to the North. Our neighborhood is located in West Carson, an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, adjacent to industrial developments that have disregarded the health impacts on our community for decades. Many of our families have lived here for generations in this underserved area.
We have discovered that if we did not get actively involved in the care of our environment, no one else would. We are trying to correct the discrimination our community has suffered by industry and the lack of environmental protections. The Del Amo Action Committee empowers residents through educational information on contaminants in our environment. We are teaching skills that will enhance our quality of life and minimize future exposure to toxins in the environment.
Due to the exposure to contaminants in our community some of our residents are experiencing the cumulative effects of long-term exposure. We are working with many agencies to improve the health of the community. We know we are all in this together and together we must make changes.
We must provide input to guide the decision-makers to make our needs a priority. These problems will not disappear on their own; it is those of us affected by these cumulative impacts who must take charge of our own fate.
This Committee is dedicated to being part of the solution. We live and work for the betterment of our community. We are engaging the future generation on how to continue with our mission for a clean and healthy environment. This Committee strives to work with everyone concerned, including those responsible for the contamination. We have achieved many of our goals; which include the opening of “Wishing Tree Park” and look forward to continued successes.
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