New York Adult Entertainment: Jackson Heights provides lesson in harmony
They got a taste of how people from different ethnic cultures – sometimes from feuding countries – could live and work together during a recent tour of Jackson Heights.
Each of the 17 participants were in New York for three weeks to learn how to better manage their organizations. The Jackson Heights trip on June 19 was their last New York excursion as part of the annual Ford Motor Co. International Fellowship of the 92nd Street Y.
“I hope they’ll see how diverse communities can work toward common goals,” said Alison Gardy, director of international relations at the Y. “People live together here that could not live together back home. And they make it work.”
That’s certainly one of Grace Yeanay’s goals. She runs an organization that helps Liberian women get out of prostitution and poverty by teaching them marketable skills. Often, the women are from feuding tribes.