L-R: Detective Leslie Leon, Pape Sette Drame, Imam Konate, Chief Delatorre, Bakary Tandia & Clarisse Mefotso Fall
By Isseu Diouf-Campbell
The New York City Police Department Community Affairs Bureau hosted the New Immigrant Outreach Unit’s Appreciation Award ceremony on April 22, 2013 at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
Twenty-seven leaders & organizations were honored for their continued support to the immigrant community and for helping the New Immigrant Outreach Unit in improving community relations throughout the city.
The honorees are:
*Abdool KarimBash – Masjid Alikhlas
*Velena Makhnin – Brighton Beach Business Improvement District
*Abdul Hakeem Ali Husseim Alhasel – Al-Noor Islamic School
*Bakary Tandia – African Services Committee, Inc
*Clarisse Mefotso Fall – African Hope Committee, Inc
*Curtis C. Nelson – Sesame Flyers International, Inc
*Dr. Gabriel Rincon – Mixteca Organization
*Dr. Hussam Rimawi – Masjid Musab Ibn Umir
*Dr. Tahir Kukiqi – Albanian Islamic Community Center
*Eva Kornacka – Polonians Organized Ministering Our Community, Inc
*Garry Pierre Pierre – CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
*Gonzalo L. Mercado – El Centro del Inmigrante
*Haitian American United for Progress, Inc
*Hizam Wahib – Arab American Family Support Center
*Imam Khalil Abdur-Rashid – Iqra Masjid Community & Tradition, Inc
*Imam Souleimane Konate – Masjid Aqsa
*Janet Enriquez-Marcic – Maura Clarke-Ita Center
*Lena Alhusseini – Arab American Family Support Center
*Maha Attieh – Arab American Family Support Center
*Moviz Asad Siddiqi – Islamic Center of North America
*Mudassar Zafar – Islamic Center of Brighton Beach
*Papa Sette Drame – Association of the Senegalese in America
*Sister Julia Suarez – St. Jerome’s Chruch
*Thomas Bailey – West Indian American Day Carnival Association
*Tom Tao – Tao Investment Group
*Turkish American Sports Club
*Venus N. Bermudez-Oviedo – HANAC Corona Beacon at PS 19Q
Photos of the event
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