YOUR PRAYER AND DONATION SUPPORTS OUR PROGRAMS:
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March 25-31 is National Farmworker Awareness Week, a week set aside to raise awareness, foster actions, and reflect on the amazing contributions farm workers make to our lives – they literally feed us!
This is the 20th year that National Farmworker Awareness Week has been sponsored by Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF). The National Farm Worker Ministry (NFWM) joins SAF in being one of their partners and invite you to share in taking action and raising awareness this week. Go to https://saf-unite.org/content/what-farmworker-awareness-week for information about the history and this year’s emphasis. Also see events being planned throughout the week for opportunities around the country – look for one near you. NFWM will be co-sponsoring a picket in Raleigh, NC at the regional office of Circle K in support of the FLOC Boycott of Vuse E-cigarettes. For more information about the event and the boycott, go tohttp://nfwm.org/news/march-28th-picket-at-circle-k-in-raleigh/ |
The Bandana Project raises awareness about workplace sexual violence farm worker women experience. As many as 80% of farm worker women experience sexual violence although it often goes unreported. April is Sexual Assault Awareness month and a great time to give focus to this horrible reality for farm worker women.
Monica Ramirez created the Bandana Project in 2007 while she was the director of Esperanza: The Immigrant Women’s Legal Initiative of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Today, this project is being led by an organization Ramirez started in 2014, Justice for Migrant Women. Thousands of bandanas have been decorated around the country and even in other countries. This project combines art and advocacy as those who wish to support farm worker women decorate white bandanas to create a visual demonstration of care and encouragement as part of their commitment to end sexual violence in the fields. For more information about how you can be involved in this project, go to https://justice4women.org/the-bandana-project |
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The life of migrant farmworker families continues to grow more difficult in these times of political and social unrest here in the United States. While the normal tensions of the constant moving from state to state following the harvest; interruption of children’s schooling multiple times per year; and difficulty in linking up with local Churches due to language, cultural, economic and social differences serves to separate our migrant families. But these are the very ones that the Gospel of Matthew encourages us to embrace …” Whatever you did to the least of my brothers and sisters, you did to me,” MT 25:40
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