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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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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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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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WAMC 60th Anniversary Celebration A Success!

October 31, 2019
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Thanks to a strong turn out from donors and supporters, the Warwick Area Migrant Committee Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration Dinner was a success! We appreciate all the support, donations, and volunteer hours put in by all to make this event such a great success. We are grateful to the Southern Orange County community at large, as […]

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Northern Star Quilter’s Guild Donates to WAMC

October 28, 2019
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Members of the The Northern Star Quilter’s Guild with their quilt.

The Northern Star Quilter’s Guild kindly donated the annual proceeds from their quilt to the Warwick Area Migrant Committee Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program. This donation was done in memory of Sister Barbara, a long-time member of the Quilters Guild and member of the Sisters of the Divine Compassion. Thank you to the Northern Star […]

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WAMC Tricky Tray Fundraiser Successful

October 8, 2019
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The WAMC Tricky Tray Fundraiser was a success-- thank you for your support!

Thank you to everyone who came out this past Friday night (10/4/19) for the Warwick Area Migrant Committee Trick Tray Fundraiser at Saint Stephen The First Martyr RC Church. There were so many winners and we hope everyone had a wonderful time. Thank you to all the local businesses who donated to the Tricky Tray. […]

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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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