Farmworker Awareness Week: March 25 - 31
Justice for Migrant Women (J4MW) is partnering with Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) to celebrate National Farmworker Awareness Week (NFAW), a week of action to raise awareness about farmworkers, the work they do, and the challenges they face. Each year, NFAW is celebrated from March 25 through March 31 by local and national farmworker-serving organizations from across the country and allies. This year, National Farmworker Awareness Week takes place after we have endured one year of the COVID-19 pandemic -- now is the time to push for change alongside farmworkers.
Join us in our week of advocacy and action on behalf of farmworkers! Download our digital toolkit and show your support of farmworkers on social media throughout the week.
A Celebration of Farmworkers: Facebook Live
In 2021, we celebrate the 22nd National Farmworker Awareness Week to raise awareness about farmworker conditions and to honor their important contributions to us every day. In partnership with Student Action with Farmworkers, Justice for Migrant Women is hosting a virtual celebration for farmworkers to initiate this week of action for national and local partner organizations.
Join the celebration on Facebook on March 25 at 3 pm ET.
Farmworkers' Pandemic Relief Fund
Justice for Migrant Women has joined with Hispanics In Philanthropy to raise funds to help meet the basic health and safety needs of America’s farmworkers and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Money raised through the fund is being disbursed to over 50 farmworker-serving organizations across the United States and in Puerto Rico to help provide food, formula, diapers, cash assistance and other support to farmworkers during this crisis.
Donate online here or send a check made payable to "Hispanics In Philanthropy" with the check memo line noting "Farmworkers’ Pandemic Relief Fund." Please mail checks to Hispanics In Philanthropy at 414 13th Street, Suite 200, Oakland, CA 94612.
The Bandana Project
The Bandana Project is a public awareness campaign aimed at addressing the issue of workplace sexual violence against farmworker women in the United States. It is an art-activism and advocacy project that serves as a healing tool for women across the U.S., Mexico and other countries. Community members, community organizations, advocates, governmental representatives, lawyers, anti-sexual violence activists and many others decorate white bandanas with words of encouragement, motivating statements, inspirational pictures and art. These bandanas are then hung in a public place as a visible demonstration of our support for farmworker women and our commitment to ending this problem.
To learn more about the campaign, become a partner and/or download our digital toolkit, click here.
Justice for Migrant Women's Policy Priorities
As an organization working alongside and on behalf of migrant women, including farmworkers, Justice for Migrant Women is committed to advancing women's economic and physical security. We are calling on our elected officials to expand rights to farmworkers, expand access to safety and well-being for survivors of sexual assault and human trafficking, and pursue humane immigration policies.
Check out our recommendations here.