The Warwick Area Migrant Committee is launching a campaign to provide safety backpacks to the area farmworkers this April (2021). As the harvest season begins, many of the area farmworkers use Pulaski Highway as they walk or ride their bikes to the fields. There are no shoulders and limited lighting on the roads in the […]
Each session the Warwick Area Migrant Committee tries to have the children in our After School Homework Club program work on a group project together. Though the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us and changed how we go about this educational enrichment activity we have had much success in continuing to get the students involved in […]
The Warwick Area Migrant Committee will continue to offer its extra curricular and enrichments program for both adults and children into the Spring season of 2021. After much success in holding remote and on site classes with pandemic restrictions place this past Winter Session, our volunteers and staff have begun planning for continuing these programs […]
Sun River Health has been advocating for New York State agricultural workers including the migrant farmworkers served by the Warwick Area Migrant Committee throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently an article was published called “Essential, Invisible, Ineligible: Food and Farm Workers Wait for Vaccine” that talks about the challenges facing agricultural workers during the pandemic. Agricultural […]
Dear Friends, Supporters, and Volunteers of the Warwick Area Migrant Committee; I wanted to share with you some sad news. Our friend Jack Egan has passed away. He had been ill for a month or so. Jack passed away two weeks ago as a result of this illness. We wanted to honor him in a […]
The Warwick Area Migrant Committee has released its 2020 Annual Report. You can view the report directly here. It is in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format and should be viewable in most modern web browsers. Alternately you can download the Adobe Acrobat Viewer application here. The Annual Report for 2020 along with previous versions are kept […]
The Warwick Area Migrant Committee faced many challenges in hosting its programs during 2020 due to the COVID Pandemic. Thanks to our dedicated and talented volunteers though we were able to make things work out albeit with modifications to keep everyone safe. The slideshow below is a recap of some of the highlights from the […]
The Warwick Area Migrant Committee has launched its 2021 Winter Programs. We are combining small onsite attendance and remote programming utilizing phone conferencing and Internet meetings to meet the needs of our program clients. This outreach and connection is so important to the people who are experiencing isolation during the ongoing pandemic. Our Hot Meals […]
The Warwick Area Migrant Committee has received several generous offers from donors to provide used furniture, clothing, household items, and other durable home goods over the last several months. We do not unfortunately have the room to store such donations or the ability to get those types of donations to our program participants. As such, […]
The Warwick Area Migrant Committee is beginning its 2021 Winter Programs and we need some volunteers to help us out with those programs. Do you want to help others out? Do you have a yearning to enrich the lives of children and adults in need? Would you like to make a positive impact in your […]
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