GREENVILLE, NC – North Carolina Focused on Increasing Education, Leadership, and Dignity, NC FIELD, organized a culinary workshop for Poder Juvenil Campesino (PJC) farmworker youth at CPW’s Fine Foods & Spirits on Sunday, June 24, 2018. PJC farmworker youth from various towns in eastern North Carolina, such as Kinston, Pink Hill, Snow Hill, and Beulaville… Read More →
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Dolores Huerta Screening – PJC Youth
For this year’s National Farmworker Awareness Week, PJC Youth attended a Dolores screening in Smithfield, NC. Dolores Huerta is an important icon in the farmworker justice movement, yet often very little is known about her. This screening was an opportunity for PJC Youth and the community to learn about her struggles, challenges, and successes as she… Read More →
Let’s Talk About Farmworkers & Food Justice!
PJC Youth joined the Food Youth Initiative, a program of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, in presenting at the 2018 Food Storm Gathering in Greensboro, NC on February 17, 2018. The Food Storm Gathering connects people doing food and justice work in the Greensboro area. This year’s event focused on the intersection of growing… 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 →
Make Your Mini Van Cool Again!
Do you have a 6-8 passenger vehicle that you are ready to see gone? NC FIELD seeks to replace our 20-year-old van with a minivan or another vehicle to transport children to preschool. Can you help with a donation of your vehicle to NC FIELD? Documentation for your gift, based Kelly Blue Book retail… Read More →