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Organization sees donations come in to support local farmworkers as heatwave continues
Rick Godina, Caldwell Community Resource Center (CRC).
A group of local farmworkers thankful for the support.
and last updated 2021-07-09 23:16:56-04
IDAHO â The Idaho Immigrant Resource Alliance (IIRA) has started distributing bottled waters and other items to farmworkers in Canyon County to provide heat relief as the heatwave continues.
IIRA has been collecting donations and raising funds to benefit the areaâs farmworkers.
âJust seeing the farmworkers really happy and excited that we are providing these supplies to them is really amazing,â said Irene Ruiz organizer and one of the co-founders of IIRA. âTo be able to work in the community and support the community is one of the most important things we can do for each other.â
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Local organization makes hand sanitizers for farmworkers
Local organization makes hand sanitizer for farmworkers
and last updated 2020-12-09 22:11:27-05
TWIN FALLS â In the midst of the pandemic, the Idaho Immigrant Resource Alliance, IIRA, started a relief fund to help undocumented farmworkers get through the pandemic. Now they partnered with Koenig Distillery to create hand sanitizers to distribute to farmworkers. I think a lot of times we don t think about the direct or indirect link between what we eat at our table and who does the hard work, Esther Cejas, a volunteer at the Idaho Immigrant Resource Alliance, said.
With the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, and Idaho, IIRA translated the labels on the hand sanitizers to provide information to farmworkers in Spanish.