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Author Archives: AFOP
Workers Memorial Week Reflection
“Every day in America, 13 people go to work and never come home. Every year in America, nearly 4 million people suffer a workplace injury from which some may never recover. These are preventable tragedies that disable our workers, devastate … Continue reading
Farmworkers’ Part in Sustainable Agriculture Conversation
By Jimi Patalano, Communications Intern, AFOP Recently, sustainability has become a buzzword in a variety of fields and industries—energy, manufacturing, and transportation are a few noteworthy examples. Widespread realization of the looming dangers of climate change to the economy, the … Continue reading
Farmworker Immigration Reform: Preventing a “Bridge to Nowhere”
By David Strauss, East Coast Migrant Head Start Board Member and former Executive Director of AFOP Several years ago, the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee famously steered tens of millions of federal dollars to build a bridge in Alaska … Continue reading
Migrant Students Make an Impact in the Community through Theater
By Noemi Ochoa, Children in the Fields Campaign Texas Regional Coordinator, AFOP South Texas is home to many of America’s migrant farmworkers. These workers travel up North to harvest the nation’s food in states like Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan, among … Continue reading
Two Different Worlds
By Ivon Garcia, Children in the Fields Campaign Intern, AFOP I remember my mother’s hands moving so fast. I was only four and I could vividly see all the cherry trees that rose above me. During the summers when my … Continue reading
Heat Stress and Rest
By Guillermo Gonzalez, AFOP SAFE AmeriCorps Member Water, Rest, Shade: these are three things that camels do not require, since they can walk for days in the desert, where there is not only tremendous heat, but almost no access to … Continue reading
Farmworker Youth: Empowered and Activated to Create Change
By Noemi Ochoa, Children in the Fields Campaign Texas Regional Coordinator Farmworker Awareness Week is in full swing, and we can’t forget why there is a national week of action dedicated to farmworkers in the first place. In South Texas, raising awareness … Continue reading
Getting Things Done for America’s Farmworkers
By Melanie Forti, Health & Safety Programs Program Coordinator, AFOP AFOP and the Corporation for National and Community Service are happy to announce a wonderful opportunity for 28 individuals to become SAFE (Serving America’s Farmworkers Everywhere) AmeriCorps members for the … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Safety Programs
Tagged AmeriCorps, Ben Archer Health Center, Campesinos Sin Fronteras, Central Valley Opportunity Center, Community Council of Idaho, Corporation for National and Community Service, Eastern Maine Development Corporation, Farmworker, Heat Stress, HELP New Mexico, Inc., Melanie Forti, Proteus, SAFE AmeriCorps, Telamon Corporation, Worker Protection Standard
YouthSpeak 2011: A Forum of Young Minds
By Emily Drakage, Children in the Fields Campaign North Carolina Regional Coordinator, AFOP Farmworker youth council Poder Juvenil Campesino (Rural Youth Power) is organizing and leading a community forum on problems they face in the community and proposing collaborative solutions … Continue reading
A Big Burden to Bear: Farmworkers’ Struggle with Obesity
(Environmental Factors) By Doris Sempasa, Health & Safety Programs Intern Article: Are Chemicals Making Us Fat? Farmworkers in the U.S. are afflicted with obesity at alarming rates, sustaining many health complications, including diabetes and heart disease. For farmworkers, as is … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Safety Programs
Tagged diabetes, Doris Sempasa, Farmworker, obesegens, obesity, organochlorine pesticides, organophosphates, pesticides
