Gregoria Flores

Executive Director, Garifuna Community Services with New York Mennonite Immigration Program

Gregoria Flores is the Executive Director of Garifuna Community Services (GCS), a Bronx-based agency which helps recently arrived immigrants secure food, health referrals and school enrollment (among other needs) through nongovernmental organizations. GCS also refers families and children struggling to integrate into their new surroundings to counseling provided by the clergy with whom Flores partners. GCS works to respond to all of these needs with the hope of bringing services closer to the homes of Garifuna immigrants in the Bronx—where the organizational infrastructure of immigrant communities has historically been weaker than elsewhere in New York City.