Welcome for Migrant Farmworker Families
Every spring, migrant farmworker families from Mexico and South Texas arrive in Yolo County, California to work in our fields and orchards through the harvest. These are the hard-working Latino workers who kept America fed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, at great risk to themselves and their families.
150 of these families will move in to the county-run migrant farmworkers camps, one just south of Davis, the other between Woodland and Esparto. These camps will be home from the spring through the fall - to the workers and their families. The same families return year after year and it is a tightly knit community. 
(Migrant children play at one of the farmworker camps, pre-pandemic).
Traditionally, year-round locals have held welcome celebrations for the returning migrant families. Due to COVID-19 these celebrations have not been possible. But as we prepare to welcome these families back to California for the second work season since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we would like to offer each family a welcome care package, with items such as toilet paper, soap, and other household materials that would be helpful to any family on a move-in day. These packages will be distributed by Yolo County staff and volunteers shortly after the families move in, alongside rapid COVID-19 testing and on-site vaccination clinics for the camps.
This fundraiser is to include a gift card for each of the 150 migrant farmworker families who will be moving into Yolo County's migrant farmworker housing this year. Our goal is at least $50 dollars per family - if we raise more we will give more. Whatever we raise will be divided evenly between the 150 families. It is a small token of thanks and welcome to the migrant farmworker families that have long been the true backbone of our agricultural community, and who amidst this pandemic have proven more essential than ever.
