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2021 WAMC Programs Continue Into Spring Sessions

March 5, 2021
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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 […]

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In Memoriam – Jack Egan

February 8, 2021
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Jack Egan

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 […]

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Volunteers Needed

January 5, 2021
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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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2020 WAMC Christmas Drive Continues

December 7, 2020
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The Warwick Area Migrant Committee continues its 2020 Christmas Amazon Wishlist Gift Drive as we draw closer to Christmas Day. As previously reported on this web site, this year, due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Warwick Area Migrant Committee is unable to have our Annual Christmas Shop. The Christmas Shop is a way for farmworkers and […]

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Christmas 2020 Amazon Fundraiser

November 23, 2020
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Help the WAMC raise money to give local farm workers' children a wonderful Christmas!

This year, due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Warwick Area Migrant Committee is unable to have our Annual Christmas Shop. The Christmas Shop is a way for farmworkers and their families to get presents for Christmas at no cost to them. Instead of the WAMC Christmas Shop this year, we went around to families and asked […]

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WAMC Alters Thanksgiving Plans For Safety Reasons

November 6, 2020
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Please support our 2020 Thanksgiving Food Drive.

The Warwick Area Migrant Committee, due to concerns about COVID-19 safety, is making some changes to this year’s WAMC Thanksgiving Food Drive. We will still be offering a holiday Thanksgiving food program to all our WAMC program participants in the local migrant farm worker community. We will not, however, be able to have groups of […]

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2020 Dulce Esperanza Summer Program Successful Because of Its Supporters

August 24, 2020
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The 2020 Dulce Esperanza Summer Program was a successful one despite the many challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This success was due to the support of our volunteers, partners, and donors. There is is no way we could have helped so many children in need this year without your support and hard work. In […]

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Dulce Esperanza Provided Remote Summer Enrichment Program for Farmworker Children

August 24, 2020
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Friday, August 14, 2020 marked the end of the seven-week summer enrichment program named Dulce Esperanza (Sweet Hope), a program of the Warwick Area Migrant Committee. This program provided enrichment activities for up to eighty-five children from farmworker families this summer. Most of the parents work in black dirt farms and packing houses. Four thousand […]

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2020 Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program Begins

July 7, 2020
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First week of Dulce Esperanza 2020.

Last week the was the first week of Warwick Area Migrant Committee Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program for the 2020 summer session. Though we have had to adjust how the program is delivered due the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic and the guidelines set by New York State for programs such as ours in response to that […]

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WAMC Summer Program To Proceed With Modifications

June 12, 2020
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The WAMC Summer Enrichment Program will proceed during the 2020 season with modifications to keep the children safe from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Warwick Area Migrant Committee (WAMC)  Summer Enrichment Program has also been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerns about having 85 children in one location has led us to rethink the Summer Program this year. After consulting with our public health officials, we have decided to bring the Dulce Esperanza Summer Program to the camps […]

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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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