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Heart Sistas meets the community where they are at and provides information, resources, and meaningful engagements within under-served and under-represented communities, particularly focusing on the needs of minority women. Our wide variety of services and programming is aimed to combat malnutrition, obesity, and diabetes, and prevent heart disease, stroke, and other vascular diseases among women of color in South Florida, all driven by the expertise and passion of women of color who are deeply concerned about heart health and other health-related issues.
Heart Sistas envisions all families, particularly those in under-served and under-represented communities, being empowered to choose healthy living by modifying their cooking and everyday lifestyle without losing their cultural identity. We live to inspire healthy living in every home, and we are committed to raising Heart Health awareness, education, and advocacy, all led by women of color who understand and prioritize the unique health concerns of our communities.
At the age of 45 years old, Hyvelle Ferguson-Davis suffered a heart attack and stroke all in a short span. Determined to learn how to ensure she did not become another statistic, she began the hardest fight of her life, learning how to regain the control that she lost through her health crisis. Through this journey of survival, she noticed when she walked in the medical room, too often her voice was not being heard, there were not too many people that looked like her and as she became educated in the preventive measures of how to prevent health crisis. This is when she realized: had she been given this information before her heart attack and stroke maybe things would have been different for her.
Heart Sistas was birthed!
As the Vice-President of the Board of the Heart Sistas organization, it truly is an honor for me to be part of an organization that focuses on ensuring that we as black women and women of color understand that our health matters. I have personally seen the health journey of our President and CEO Hyvelle as a Stroke and Heart attack survivor and knowing if she did not speak up about her health, she would not be with us today.
At 59 I’m happy to be a wife, mother and grandmother. I am an ordained minister serving at my local church for over 18 years. The President and CEO of Heart Sista Hyvelle is my sister. After her horrific encounter with Diabetes, Stroke and Heart-attack my perspective shifted. My gratitude for her being alive led me to be a part of her journey. My life joy is to mentor women to live the best health aware life as possible through proper nutrition and exercise. I believe Heart health is paramount to women and having an opportunity to help to bring that message across in every spectrum is vital.
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