Please subscribe to The Sylva Herald and visit the original article Dec 11, 2019 By Beth Lawrence A service organization is using the example of the biblical Good […]
By: Katie Kayser This post originally appeared on https://saf-unite.tumblr.com/. Katie was placed at Vecinos through SAF. From the backseat of the mobile clinic van, I peered outside the window. I […]
By Annie Vasquez, 2019 North Carolina State Employees Credit Union Fellow at Vecinos Vecinos Farmworker Health Program – a special place with employees who all have a passion for […]
By: Mary Martinez In January of this year, Vecinos began offering integrated mental health services in its static and mobile health clinics. The response thus far from our clients has […]
On January 17, 2019, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Zoe Lodgren introduced a new farmworker bill that would provide a path to citizenship for farmworkers meeting the bill’s requirements… Senator Feinstein noted that California struggles to find farmworkers and acknowledged that backbreaking farm labor is performed largely by undocumented immigrants.
North Carolina maintains an average estimate farmworker population of between 100,000 to 300,000, and is the 5th in the nation with the leading amount of farmworkers, both migrant and seasonal… Many farmworkers currently work for a salary at or below the federal poverty line without receiving overtime pay for working over 40 hours per week.
