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WFWA members may enroll in the association’s budget-saving Benefit Plan II program and participate in weekly free-of-charge supplemental food distributions featuring fresh organic produce and other nutritious foods. Volunteers are needed year-round to pick up, sort, box and distribute food to enrolled members.

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Volunteer physicians and registered nurses provide health education sessions on a variety of health topics such as diabetes, high blood pressure, nutrition and exercise.

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Volunteer attorneys present general legal information in group settings as well as private legal advice consultations, accompanied by a WFWA lay advocate. Topics include wage theft, evictions, discrimination and what to do if pulled over by a police officer. WFWA needs more volunteer attorneys, legal advocates and interpreters.

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WFWA volunteers assist with sorting and organizing clothing, doing benefit intakes and assisting members in filling their clothing requests.

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Farm workers, landscapers, temp and gig workers and other low-paid workers can’t win without organization. WFWA teaches the skill of advocacy. You can learn how to fight to keep a member’s lights on, how to help workers win back unpaid wages, how to expunge medical debt, and fight government and corporate denials to the most vulnerable workers.

Sundays

WFWA members who work the San Joaquin Valley’s farms host WFWA volunteers at farm labor camps to bring the benefit of organization, community connection and material aid, such as food, clothing, sun protection and cooling supplies to their families, and to report on farm worker conditions. Call WFWA to join us!

Saturdays

WFWA membership canvasses are the lifeblood of our grassroots farm worker organizing drive. Alone and isolated we cannot achieve anything; united we can win! Volunteers canvass door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods where members and potential members live to build organization where it’s needed the most.

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Join WFWA’s publication staff! You can learn – or help teach – how to produce the next issue of WFWA’s newspaper, the Western Farm Worker, to tell the truth about low-income workers organizing for economic justice, and our seasonal Sponsors Guide. We also need volunteers to design flyers.

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Volunteers set up information tables in front of grocery stores, at local community events and other locations to promote WFWA so that others can join our cause. This is one way WFWA enlists new friends and participants to come in and make a difference. Please call if you can volunteer or if you know of a location where WFWA can set up an information table.

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Volunteers prepare and send letters about our current campaigns to people who have joined WFWA and have expressed an interest in volunteering or supporting WFWA. We need volunteers to help with the daily letter mailouts as well as to assist with the bulk mailing of WFWA’s membership newspaper and Sponsors Guide.

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Volunteers are essential to all of WFWA’s activities year-round. Volunteers conduct group telephone training sessions to call members about upcoming benefit activities and re-contact interested individuals met on community outreach about participating with WFWA’s organizing activities scheduled each week.

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WFWA volunteers and members speak to college classes, clubs, church groups and other groups to teach about the economic problems WFWA’s members face and how people from all walks of life can participate in building solutions from the bottom up.

When weather cools for the winter, WFWA heats up to protect the lives of low-income workers suffering from high heating costs, lack of adequate winter wear and loss of work hours due to seasonal changes. Volunteers play an important role in filling benefit requests from members and checking on homebound members and other residents through canvassing in low-income neighborhoods.

WFWA’s Spring Expansion Campaign is a material form of hope for our collective future. Along with an expansion of WFWA’s Benefit Program and community outreach, the campaign includes WFWA’s Spring Family Brunch and Children’s Easter Egg Hunt, which features a hearty meal, games, prizes and fun for membership families.

WFWA’s Farm Worker Summer Campaign reaches seasonal farm workers at their homes through door-to-door membership canvasses, and migrant farm workers through Operation Camp Crews to farm labor camps throughout the San Joaquin Valley. WFWA runs distributions at the farm labor camps of food, clothing, hygiene supplies, sun protection, bottles of water and cooling equipment like fans and air conditioners.

The expenses low-income working parents face for back-to-school clothes and supplies, medical exams for school entry and immunizations can break an already overstretched budget. Our Back-to-School clothing and supply distribution can save WFWA membership families up to $500 – money that can be used to pay for rent, utilities, food and medicines these families would otherwise be forced to do without.

WFWA’s annual Children’s Safe and Sane Halloween Party and chaperoned Trick-or-Treat for Farm Workers is the first in a series of events organized by and for low-income workers and their families through the holiday season. In addition, WFWA runs a budget-saving program for members to help other members meet seasonal needs such as holiday food basket distributions for Thanksgiving and Christmas-time, and holiday toy distributions to parents for their private family gift giving to their children. Join the festivities!