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 […]
For the fifth year in a row, the Warwick Area Farmworker Organization Summer Enrichment Program or farmworker children is operating out of the Pine Island Elementary School in Pine Island, New York. The program known as Dulce Esperanza (Sweet Hope_ will begin on June 28, 2021 and run for seven weeks. The intention of the […]
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 […]
The Warwick Area Migrant Committee is currently accepting candidates for consideration of the following positions for our 2021 Summer Enrichment Program: Certified Teachers Summer Interns Outreach Worker If you are interested in applying, you can read more about each position and find out how to apply on our Careers page found here.
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 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 […]
Sun River Health has been advocating for New York State agricultural workers including the migrant farmworkers served by the Warwick Area Migrant Committee throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently an article was published called “Essential, Invisible, Ineligible: Food and Farm Workers Wait for Vaccine” that talks about the challenges facing agricultural workers during the pandemic. Agricultural […]
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 […]
The Warwick Area Migrant Committee has released its 2020 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 2020 along with previous versions are kept […]
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