Press Release Contact: Yessy Bustos, yessybustos@ncfield.org, 252-412-3669 For Immediate Release (October 3, 2016) Kinston, NC – North Carolina Focus on Increasing Education, Leadership & Dignity, or NC FIELD based in Kinston, NC has begun a project to improve the education and health outcomes of farmworker families and their children by providing safe alternatives to field work. The 3-year… Read More →
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Newsletter Issue Sept. 2016
Dear NC FIELD Supporters, Thank you for supporting NC FIELD and farmworkers everywhere. We hope you will enjoy some updates on the amazing work that we have been doing thanks to supporters like you! Read more about: New Staff Positions! New Horizons Project PJC Youth Meeting Meet NC FIELD’s new Program Manager! We are excited to… Read More →
The Nation: Why Are Children Working in American Tobacco Fields?
Great reporting from The Nation on young farmworkers: Young farm workers are falling ill from “green tobacco sickness” while the industry denies it and government lets it happen. The air was heavy and humid on the morning the three Cuello sisters joined their mother in the tobacco fields. The girls were dressed in jeans and… Read More →
NC Youth on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
The Daily Show interviews NC teens: Get More: Comedy Central,Funny Videos,Funny TV Shows
NY Times: Just 13, and Working Risky 12-Hour Shifts in the Tobacco Fields
The NY Times published this great article, featuring Saray’s story… PINK HILL, N.C. — On many mornings, as tobacco plants tower around her, Saray Cambray Alvarez pulls a black plastic garbage bag over her 13-year-old body to protect her skin from leaves dripping with nicotine-tinged dew. When Saray and other workers — including several more… Read More →