Last Saturday (March 9th), APIFM partnered with Sustainable Little Tokyo, the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, and Metro on a Jitensha Little Tokyo bike tour from Little Tokyo to Boyle Heights. Fun fact: jitensha (written じてんしゃ) is the Japanese word for bicycle! It also means “self-driven vehicle.” It is…...
HEAL Intern Spotlight: Leon Foster
What have you been doing as an intern with APIFM? While working with APIFM, I was part of numerous nutrition workshops tailored to older adults and young children. These workshops were no more than a hour long and contained tastings, demos, games, and review questions. It was a little nerve-racking…...
API Foward Movement Lauches Healthy Eating Workshops at Castelar Elementary in LA Chinatown
Download this press release as a PDF. In late January 2019, Asian Pacific Islander Forward Movement (APIFM) launched multiple healthy eating workshop series at Castelar Elementary School in Los Angeles’s Chinatown neighborhood. Each series is at least six weeks long, and aims to promote healthy eating behaviors such as increasing…...
Walk the Walk – Week 3 Results
#walkthewalk Updated: February 22, 2019 at 10:12pm How y’all feeling? Gosh has February been brutal huh? Rain. Cold. SNOW. The elements are out there against us to get steps this month! If you haven’t already, join our Facebook group to hear about the latest updates, events to get some steps, encouragement, and…...
Walk the Walk – Week 2 Results
#walkthewalk Updated: February 15, 2019 at 6pm Okay so week 2 is where #walkthewalk gets reaalllyyyy interesting. BTW if you haven’t already, join our Facebook group to hear about the latest updates, events to get some steps, encouragement, and of course…smack talk! Individual League We started this league with 20 folks, and…...
2018 Taiwan Trip Recap
By Kyle Tsukahira Back in September 2018 APIFM Program Manager Kyle Tsukahira had the opportunity to travel to Taiwan in order to facilitate an series of air quality workshops for students from Wu Ling High School in Taoyuan City and 15 teachers from different schools around Taiwan who are participating…...
