A Division of the Warwick Area Migrant Committee Helping Farmworkers & Their Families Since 1959
It is hard to believe it, but after this week the Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization will be half way through its Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program for the 2021 Summer Session! We thought we would take a look back as we head into this week to catch you up on some events we held so […]
The Warwick Area Farmworker Organization continues to recognize our top donors as “Benefactors” of a specific WAFO program or initiative for a given year. We would like to recognize two additional donors who have contributed at the Benefactor donor level to the Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program for 2021. Our two newest 2021 Summer Enrichment […]
The Warwick Area Farmworker Organization Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program was launched this week and we were able to do this in part due to several significant donations. We are very grateful to the continued support of all of our donors and the funding from these important benefactors. Without this support, our Summer Enrichment Program […]
Dear Friends, As always, I would like to begin this letter with an expression of my gratitude for your support of the farmworker families. It has never been more important due to the recovery of our community following the COVID pandemic. We are looking forward to a great summer-back in Pine Island Elementary School. […]
A big thank you to all of you who donated supplies and funds for our safety backpack program. We wanted to give you an update on how the distribution is going. We have two Community Health Workers who are helping to provide the safety back packs with some education on the contents of the bags […]
As previously posted on our website here, the Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization (WAFO) with the support of Sun River Healthcare held an event to distribute safety backpacks as part of the Warwick Area Migrant Committee Safety Backpack program on Sunday, April 18, 2021 at the at the Pine Island Elementary School in Pine Island, NY. […]
On Saturday, April 17, 2021 a group of volunteers consisting of employees of the Green Team Realty, three local area farmworkers, original team members for the CDC-NYCAMH Project, the Warwick Area Farmworker Organization Board Members (whose parent organization is the Warwick Area Migrant Committee), volunteers from the local community, and Chief Thomas McGovern of the […]
Once again for 2021 the Warwick Area Migrant Committee delivered Easter baskets to all the children whose families participate in our various programs. This Easter we gave out Easter baskets to 90 farmworkers’ children in the Warwick New York area. Some of the baskets were donated from Christ Church in Warwick, NY. The rest of […]
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 […]
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, […]
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