Mission

We aim to bring awareness of the silent struggles of migrant farmworker children and empower them. Farmworkers who are at risk of wage theft, abuse, sexual harassment, and bad

working conditions. We can argue that as long as people get the produce, they

continue to ignore the dehumanization that the farmworkers behind the produce

face. Migrant farmworker children are equally affected but invisible due to an

inability to speak out. Severe problems, such as lack of education, affect this

vulnerable population during their formative years. They work in unsafe conditions

in fields when they should be in classrooms. An estimated “400,000 - 500,000”

children are affected in this manner. Migrant farmworkers’ children are less likely

(“1 out of 5000”) to graduate from high school, and postsecondary education is practically non-existent.

As a Los Gatos, CA, student who’s never worked in a

field or had to migrate for work, these are not my lived-in experiences. Please read

the stories of migrant farmworkers and migrant farmworker children. I hope to

help in any small way I can with the education of these children.

[https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/14/the-children-in-the-fields].