Group wants to spice up Latino area - Philadelphia

“All were made possible through an entrepreneurship training program for Latinos offered by the Empowerment Group, a nonprofit organization founded in 1999 to battle poverty and unemployment in the Kensington area. With a recently awarded $700,000 federal grant, the Empowerment Group hopes to make more dreams come true and highlight those in the neighborhood that have. In doing so, the organization hopes to drive $2 million in new revenue into a community its executive director said is often overlooked by the rest of the city.

“If you go into a restaurant in that area you will probably find almost all Latinos,” Sylvie Gallier, executive director for the Empowerment Group said. “If you go to Chinatown, you see people with all different backgrounds and you are not seeing that there.”"

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