NC FIELD

North Carolina Focus on Increasing Education Leadership and Dignity

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North Carolina Focus on Increasing Education Leadership and Dignity

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Changing Lives in Eastern NC

Farmworkers touch our lives every day through picking the fruit and vegetables that end up on our plates at every meal. Ironically, many farmworkers suffer from malnutrition and food scarcity due to poor wages, lack of work, transportation difficulties and rural isolation. Farmworkers are also frequently exploited, both on and off the job, therefore denying them workers’ rights, safe and humane living conditions, and a dignified existence.

NC FIELD is a non-profit based in Kinston, North Carolina, in the heart of the state's large-scale agricultural region. NC FIELD works to fill service gaps in the farmworker community, raise awareness of the plight of the farmworker, and empower farmworkers to pursue educational and economic opportunities beyond the fields.

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NC FIELD has strong ties to farmworker families in eastern North Carolina, and they have worked to engage and train youth to speak about the realities of working in the fields. They are building a community of bright, young farmworker children ready to advocate for workers' rights.”

~ Zama Coursen-Neff, Director, Children’s Rights Division Human Rights Watch

From the Blog

Child Labor on the Farm: Leaves of Poison

TypeInvestigations formally The Investigative Fund, featured a few of our Poder Juvenil Campesino youth group members + co-founder, Melissa Bailey-Castillo to highlight the plight of farmworker children and their communities as a part of the award-winning series Child Labor on the Farm, which uncovers how the farm lobby crushed regulations that could have saved the lives and… Read More →

Latina Equal Pay Day 2019

Wednesday, November 20, 2019, marked Latinas’ Equal Pay Day, the symbolic day when Hispanic and Latina women’s earnings “catch up” to non-Hispanic white men’s earnings from the previous year. Latinas are paid 54 percent of what non-Hispanic white men are paid. That means it takes Latinas almost an entire extra year of full-time, year-round work… Read More →