Author: Marianne Martinez

Working together creating health access opportunity for our communities in need in WNC By Yolanda Pinzon Uribe Community Health Program Manager Vecinos With the idea to go through Covid19 transition

  The next phase of the COVID-19 approach needs to be focused on empowering individuals to make the best informed decisions to protect themselves, their families, and their communities By

  By Yolanda Pinzon Uribe, Community Health Program Vecinos We know that our communities are in different COVID-19 “Levels”, but also we know that they need to have by hand

  Por Yolanda Pinzon Uribe Coordinadora Programa de Salud Comunitaria Tres mujeres llegaron a esta región en busca de trabajo y oportunidades para ayudar a sus familias en México. Ellas

  By Yolanda Pinzon Uribe, Community Health Program, Vecinos Vecinos is reaping the fruits of their 20+ years of labor. After working to establish themselves as a complementing their established

  Internships are a great way to learn or apply skills, as well as a way to give back to the community. Vecinos offers flexible, unpaid internships throughout the year

  As summer tip-toes back into our lives, there are plenty of delicious fruits and vegetables being cultivated right here in our beautiful mountain region! Vecinos visited Darnell Farms in

  Photo by: Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP) This past week was National Farmworker Women’s Health Week (NFWHW), a public awareness campaign about the health risks that farmworker women

Cesar Chavez snd Dolores Huerta, Salinas, California. Photo: Victor Alemán.   The legacy of farmworkers advocates like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta is everlasting and can be felt today as

Agricultural Guest Worker Visas North Carolina’s economy relies on the agricultural industry (read more from last week’s blog) and with the lack of domestic workers, the H-2A visa program has