Joel Foster is a Multimedia Journalist at KGUN9.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Growing up in the desert heat of Chihuahua, Mexico, Leonardo Gamboa learned a simple lesson.Upon moving to the U.S., he realized the same division existed in the sprawling city of Tucson.
Its Justicia Juntos initiative was created from a $166,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant to help Tucson's Latino community deal with increasing temperatures.The initiative will serve to complement the city’s climate action and adaptation plan. While that plan covers the entire city, Justicia Juntos looks to “go micro” by focusing on those most impacted by extreme heat on the south side.
Their strategy includes forming neighborhood coalitions of youth, who will work with scientific experts to communicate issues of extreme heat with their family and friends. In addition, the initiative will provide education to residents about the effects of extreme heat and how to deal with it. A study released in 2021 by UC-Davis found that the south side of Tucson has temperatures over 15 degrees hotter on average than the northern part of the city. The study showed that Latino communities across the southwest typically live in hotter areas. As Arizona’s summers get hotter each year, that means these communities are at risk from extreme heat emergencies.
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