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DINUBA, Calif. (KGPE) - While astir radical get clip disconnected to bask the vacation weekend, farmworkers crossed California are inactive moving hard during an extended vigor wave.
"It's incredibly blistery retired present successful the Central Valley, and we conscionable wanted to fto farmworkers cognize that we're reasoning of them during this vigor and that, there's a assemblage retired determination that cares for them," Flor Martinez Zaragoza, the President and Founder of Celebration Nation said.
President and Founder of Celebration Nation, Flor Martinez ZaragozaCelebration Nation is simply a non-profit that serves the Indigenous Latino community, bringing consciousness to workplace workers and their moving conditions.
This week Celebration Nation spent clip successful Dinuba handing retired sombreros, towels dipped successful ice-cold h2o for nether their hats, snacks, and Gatorades.
Its efforts similar this, she hopes volition assistance radiance a airy connected what farmworkers woody with daily.
"Our efforts bring consciousness to the injustices farmworkers face, and they decidedly request that visibility," said Zaragoza. "We're truthful utilized to conscionable going to our air-conditioned market stores and conscionable grabbing immoderate effect from the shelf. But we request to admit that it's idiosyncratic retired determination virtually moving to marque that merchandise accessible to you and it's not ever easy.”
As Zaragoza spends clip successful the fields she's reminded of her ain childhood, erstwhile she worked successful the vigor astatine conscionable 14 years aged arsenic a kid laborer picking vino grapes.
Now, she continues to advocator for farmworkers successful California who marque up astir fractional of each farmworkers successful America and nutrient two-thirds of the nation's fruits and nuts.
Every azygous time farmworkers play an important relation successful the U.S. nutrient system, contributing countless fruits, vegetables, and grains that enactment our market store aisles. But with grounds heat, this indispensable radical is astatine risk, and Zaragoza says everyone tin assistance support them harmless by donating supplies, oregon their time.
"I deliberation we each tin bash something, to springiness backmost to our farmworkers, particularly since they amusement up connected days similar this for us," said Zaragoza. "We are collecting sombreros and the cooler towels truthful we tin scope our extremity of 4,000 workplace workers. We besides person our back-to-school thrust for the farmworker families. We person our Food Bank for Farmworkers program, wherever we supply caller nutrient to farmworker families each month."
If you would similar to assistance farmworkers successful the vale you tin sojourn the Celebration Nation website here. Their adjacent lawsuit volition beryllium a nutrient slope successful McFarland connected Saturday, July 12.
