FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KINSTON, NC – North Carolina Focus on Increasing Education, Leadership & Dignity (NC FIELD) based in Kinston, NC will host a summer project in 2018 focusing on empowering and educating farmworkers, while providing safe economic and educational opportunities for farmworker youth. “Farmworkers touch our lives everyday through picking the fruit and… Read More →
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NC FIELD Stands with DREAMers
Kinston, NC – NC FIELD Executive Director, Yessy Bustos, has issued the following statement on the announcement from the Trump Administration regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program: “Dear NC FIELD Family and Supporters, On September 5, 2017 it was announced that the Department of Homeland Security rescinded the Deferred Action for… Read More →
Could a 7-year-old have picked the food you’re eating? The law says no. Workers say yes.
BY MADISON ISZLER miszler@newsobserver.com Jacqueline Castillo was 7 when she started picking tobacco in Wayne County, about 55 miles southeast of Raleigh. Castillo, her mother and four older siblings would wake up around 5:30 a.m., pack a lunch and wait for a van to pick them up and take them to the fields. With a… Read More →
Let’s get Evaluated!!
This spring NC FIELD collaborated with Duke University Masters of Environmental Management student, Katheryn Gaash. Each spring graduate students are partnered with local organizations to conduct a project that supports the organization’s mission and programs. Katheryn collaboratively developed the tools and framework to better evaluate PJC Youth programming with NC FIELD. Katheryn conducted several focus groups… Read More →
Donate a New/Used Carseat TODAY!!
Through New Horizons project, our goal is to increase the number of eligible farmworker children enrolled in migrant head start facility. In order to do this we need your support! Donate any used or new carseats to NC FIELD! Carseats will be used to transport farmworker children to the nearest East Coast Migrant Head Start facility…. Read More →
Youth Voices in the Agricultural System!
The mission of Come to the Table is to relieve hunger and strengthen just and sustainable agricultural in rural North Carolina. This is done by engaging and mobilizing people of faith, farmers, and communities. This years event was held in Durham on March 15 with 4 PJC youth attending. During this event youth participated in… Read More →