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Summer Time Is Almost Here

May 28, 2020
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He loves stuffed animals!

The children in the Warwick Area Migrant Committee Summer Enrichment Program are getting excited that summer is approaching. They are getting their favorite toys ready for grand adventures and are looking forward to playing outdoors with friends both new and old!  

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WAMC Summer Program Garden In Bloom

May 27, 2020
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The WAMC Summer Program Garden Is Almost Ready!

The Warwick Area Migrant Committee (WAMC) Summer Enrichment Program in years past has annually planted a summer garden through a cooperative effort of students, parents, and program volunteers at the Pine Island Elementary School in Pine Island, New York. The Summer Program is hosted as this school each year and provides educational enrichment opportunities for […]

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WAMC Continues COVID-19 Outreach Program Deliveries

May 4, 2020
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The WAMC continues its COVID-19 Response Food Outreach Program.

The Warwick Area Migration Committee (WAMC) continued its food delivery effort as part of its COVID-19 Response Outreach Program this past week. WAMC volunteers worked to get food supplies that were purchased through donations from our program supporters sorted as they came in from suppliers. The WAMC worked with local organizations that assist with food […]

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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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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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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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WAMC Finishes 2019 Program Session

August 20, 2019
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The Warwick Area Migrant Committee completed another successful session of the Summer Enrichment Program for this year on Friday; August 16, 2019! So much happened this summer and the children had so much fun! Thank you to everyone for another wonderful year of Dulce Esperanza! The WAMC Executive staff is very appreciative of all the […]

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WAMC Not In Need of Furniture Or Clothing Donations Currently

August 13, 2019
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The Warwick Area Migrant Committee has been very blessed this year by several charitable donations of furniture and clothing to the Summer Enrichment Program. At this time we have no active need though for any further donations of this type (furniture or clothing) thanks to that aforementioned generosity. If this need does change we will […]

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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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