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WAMC In Need of Volunteers to Make Face Masks & Easter Baskets

April 6, 2020
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The WAMC is in need of donations for Easter meals and baskets.

The Warwick Area Migrant Committee continues its work with the local migrant farm workers of Southern Orange County, NY during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We are in need of immediate assistance with donations for food and gift baskets for Easter (which is taking place this Sunday; April 12, 2020). In lieu of food donations you […]

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WAMC Continues Food Distribution To Those In Need

April 2, 2020
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WAMC volunteers continue to distribute food and supplies to migrant workers and their families who are need because of the COVID-19 epidemic.

The Warwick Area Migrant Committee, in partnership with HRHCare, continues to bring food to the migrant farm worker camps daily as it has all this week. Our volunteers delivered over fifty boxes as planned to migrant farm worker families in these camps during this past week alone. This week we also included in the food […]

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WAMC Continuing To Service Those Most In Need During Epidemic

March 30, 2020
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The WAMC is responding to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic.

Even with the challenges posed by the recent COVID-19 epidemic, the Warwick Area Migrant Committee is still in high gear at the Health Center and the ALAMO Community Center. We are in the process of delivering up to fifty containers of food for the migrant farm worker families served by our programs who are now […]

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WAMC Sponsors Municipal ID Program

February 10, 2020
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The WAMC hosted a program on how to get a municipality ID card.

The Warwick Area Migrant Committee co-sponsored a program with Las Mejores de Los Immigrantes for our Sunday Program participants this past weekend on Sunday, February 9, 2020. During the meeting participants learned more about how to work toward a Municipal Identification card. Future community meetings are planned about the 2020 Census form and the New […]

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Four Teens Making a Difference!

January 31, 2020
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Cameron Quinn, Charlotte O’Connor; Billie Finn and Elizabeth Centorrio have been volunteering to tutor children of farm worker families each week.

When we hear about teenagers being self-centered,  people have not met four Warwick Valley High School students pictured here. The students have been volunteering with Warwick Area Migrant Committee (WAMC) for at least a year,  some for four years. The four girls, Cameron Quinn, Charlotte O’Connor, Billie Finn and Elizabeth Centorrio have been volunteering to […]

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2019 WAMC Annual Report

January 23, 2020
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2019 Warwick Area Migrant Committee Annual Report

The Warwick Area Migrant Committee is proud to announce that our Annual Report for 2019 is now available online here. Thank you to all our supporters, donors, volunteers, staff, program parents, and the children in the program for making this year such a successful one. We look forward to continuing and growing that success in […]

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WAMC Students Celebrate Christmas

January 9, 2020
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We hope everyone had an amazing Christmas! This year the Warwick Area Migrant Committee had our Christmas store and we able to help over 160 families. For the kids, Santa was there and volunteers brought crafts for the kids to do. The crafts included cookie decorating and ornament making. Thank you to everyone volunteered and […]

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Orthmann Family Continues Santa Brigade Tradition

December 18, 2019
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For the past 15 years the Orthmann Santa Brigade has been delivering bags of food and clothing to migrant workers every Christmas.

As they do annually, the Orthmann family on Tuesday; December 17, 2019 made a special delivery of over hundred bags of food and gifts to the farm workers and their families at the Warwick Area Migrant Committee Center in Goshen, New York. The Orthmann family has been doing this great work for over fifteen years! […]

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An afternoon of Children’s International Puppet Making

December 16, 2019
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The Folk Arts Program at Arts Mid-Hudson and the Warwick Area Migrant Committee will present an afternoon of Children’s International Puppet Making on Sunday, January 19th from 1:00-4:00 p.m. at Pine Island Elementary School, 20 Schoolhouse Road in Pine Island. The free family-friendly event will feature stations where participants will discover puppets from around the […]

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Giving Tuesday 2019 – Dulce Esperanza GoFundMe Fundraiser

December 3, 2019
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Giving Tuesday - Dulce Esperanza GoFundMe Fundraiser

Giving Tuesday is a day dedicated to supporting local non-profit organizations and their charitable works by making a donation. This year Giving Tuesday is Tuesday; December 3, 2019. We ask you to consider contributing to our Giving Tuesday Dulce Esperanza GoFundMe fundraiser that can be found here. Your charitable donation will go directly to support […]

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Safety Backpack Fundraiser:

Donate Supplies from our Amazon Wishlist!

The WAFO Safety Backpack program annually raises funds and supplies to support our efforts to distribute work safety backpacks to migrant farmworkers in the Warwick Valley. Donating from our Amazon Wishlist above allows you to donate supplies for these bags so the farmworkers can remain safe commuting and working in the farm fields. More…

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Goshen, NY 10924
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