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

We’ve all been to grocery stores and bought our favorite fruits and vegetables, and most of the time it was with little thought – we just grabbed and went on

Photo by: wcu.edu   Introducción El Programa de Salud para Trabajadores Agrícolas de Vecinos ha ayudado en los esfuerzos para garantizar que la comunidad latina y los trabajadores agrícolas en

Photo: wcu.edu   Introduction Vecinos Farmworker Health Program has aided efforts in ensuring the Latino and farmworker community in the seven western counties of North Carolina have the resources to

We are so excited to announce the receipt of our newest mobile clinic! Check out this sneak peek from the day it was delivered, August 13, 2020. Thank you to

By: Kenny Parmenter, LCSW-A, LCAS-A The point of mind-body connection is to be aware of what is happening in your mind and what your body is experiencing. This could involve