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Organization sees donations come in to support local farmworkers as heatwave continues

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 — 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 area’s farmworkers. “Just seeing the farmworkers really happy and excited that we are providing these supplies to them is really amazing,” said Irene Ruiz organizer and one of the co-founders of IIRA. “To be able to work in the community and support the community is one of the most important things we can do for each other.”

Who is essential ? Food and farm workers left in limbo in vaccine priorities

Who is ‘essential’? Food and farm workers left in limbo in vaccine priorities POLITICO 1/17/2021 By Ximena Bustillo and Ryan McCrimmon © Scott Olson/Getty Images Juan Rico culls cotton plants growing between rows in an irrigated cotton field July 27, 2011 near Hermleigh, Texas. The nation’s food workers, hit hard by Covid-19 infections throughout the crisis, are finding resistance in the race to get vaccinated. The industry is clamoring to prioritize frontline food workers who kept Americans fed throughout the worst of the pandemic even as thousands of them fell sick and hundreds died. But limited doses and a haphazard patchwork of distribution plans are leading to fears that thousands more workers will get hit potentially stymieing food production in the coming weeks and months.

Local organization makes hand sanitizers for farmworkers

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 — 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.

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