Jobeth Leon joins the Warwick Area Farmworker Organization as the Outreach Coordinator. She will assist Kathy Brieger in organizing the Community Health Worker Team as well as the Outreach for Youth activities. Her outreach to farmworker families will include the parents for youth attending the programs, including Dulce Esperanza. Jobeth has a unique skill set […]
OUR HONOREE Minkus Family Farms Sun River Health Foundation is proud to be honoring Minkus Family Farms at our upcoming Honoring The Hands event on April 27th for their commitment to agriculture and health. We are so grateful to have partners like Minkus Family Farms who share the belief that we can cultivate good produce […]
The Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization has released its 2022 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 2022 along with previous versions are kept […]
This past Holiday Season has been one of blessing for so many people in the migrant farmworker community thanks to the compassion, kindness, and charity of so many in our community. The Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization has put together a video below summarizing some of those individuals, organizations, and volunteers who worked so tirelessly to […]
Guest chef Chris Madura, who is a local third generation farmer, helps Kathy Brieger prepare cucumbers into pickles in this episode of “Food as Medicine”. You can find Chris and his family’s produce at the Pine Island Farmers Market in Pine Island, NY. This episode was made possible by the Jacobowitz family who donated the […]
The Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization will hold this year’s 2022 Annual WAFO Kermes Fundraiser on Sunday; August 14, 2022 between 12 pm and 4 pm. This annual event traditionally follows the end of the WAFO Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program and is a way for the parents of the children in the Summer Program to […]
The Warwick Area Farmworker Organization in partnership with Sunriver Health are proud to present a new show called “Food As Medicine”. In this series our chefs explore ways to make healthy dishes many of which are inspired by traditional Mexican food culture. In our latest episode (Episode 2) hosts Kathy Brieger and Sherry Wykcoff discuss […]
The first week of the Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program kicked off last week and we are happy to report we had great start for this year’s program filled with many activities, educational opportunities, and thanks to so many volunteers a full staff to help out this year’s class of ninety […]
Last week the Teen Leaders from the Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program attended a production of the play “Romeo and Juliet” that was part of this year’s Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. The ten teen students also enjoyed a picnic lunch that followed the play as part of the field trip. The […]
The first Annual Father John V. Boland Memorial Scholarship was awarded this past week to Melissa Cortez, a High School Senior at Goshen High School in Goshen New York, who is also a student participant in several Warwick Area Migrant Farmworker programs. She will be attending SUNY Orange (Orange County Community College) in Middletown, New […]
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