Program areas at Alianza Nacional de Campesinas
COVID-19 RESPONSE For COVID-19 Response, Alianza partnered with 6 other organizations for vaccine outreach & access in various areas nationwide. The project trained and engaged more than 264 community health outreach workers (across 141 counties in 20 states and 78 municipalities in Puerto Rico) who reached more than 2 million farmworkers, farmworker family members, rural farmers, meatpackers and other essential workers who were Latinx and Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) in historically underserved and socially disadvantaged rural communities. Alianza provided financial guidance to at least three partner organizations. Alianza has also led two food distributions in Coachella, CA and Santa Maria, CA every month to provide basic necessity items and food to the communities of these areas with the support of local collaborators. Additionally, in 2022, Alianza provided mini-grants to 11 member organizations for COVID-19 Response aid in their communities. They in turn provided food distributions, PPE supplies, and information regarding COVID-19 to the communities in their areas.
Farm and Food Worker Relief Alianza Nacional de Campesinas is honored to receive a $48.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) through the Farm and Food Workers Relief Grant Program (FFWR). The award allows Alianza in partnership with four of its member organizations - Campesinos Sin Fronteras, Lderes Campesinas, Rural Coalition and the Workers' Center of Central New York - and a close ally, the Migrant Clinicians Network, to provide relief funds to more than 64,000 farm and meatpacking workers who incurred pandemic-related health and safety costs. Alianza and its partners will coordinate a workforce of more than 100 community health workers in 14 states and 30 municipalities in Puerto Rico so that eligible workers may apply for the one-time relief payment of $600.
Public Awareness / Mobilizing For public awareness/ mobilizing to know your rights in the workplace and other related health issues; Alianza carried out various key celebrations, commemorations, and events year round in collaboration with member organizations. These campaigns bring attention to the priority areas of Alianza. Attention to these areas is garnered via in person events & activities as well as media venues (in english and spanish), interviews, articles, radio, and social media platforms.
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