AFSC - Visalia

For 40 years, AFSC's Farm Labor Program (Proyecto Campesino) has supported farmworkers throughout the San Joaquin Valley in their quest for humane working conditions, safer housing, affordable health care, and the recognition due them as working members of society. In the wake of recent anti-immigrant scapegoating, Proyecto Campesino has defended the rights of immigrant workers and their families, countering negative public perceptions with accurate information.

The program conducts voter drives, citizenship classes, open forums on immigration affairs, and a weekly radio program directed to farmworkers. AFSC also assists farmworkers acting on public health concerns, as in a recent campaign that defeated construction of a toxic waste incinerator