A letter from the Western Farm Workers Association, with ways you can help this holiday season:
We have over 100 families enrolled in a program that includes food boxes for Thanksgiving and Christmas, work boots and jackets, toys and a lot more. One area we still need help is in our toy drive as we have lost many of our normal toy donors due to conditions created by the pandemic.
We have nearly 300 specific toy requests from the more than 100 enrolled farm worker families. The toys are a benefit for the parents (our members) and are therefore given directly to the parents, in secret, so that the parents can give the gifts to their own children.
We need groups, churches, businesses and individuals to "adopt" a certain number of children's gifts requests. We provide the specific requests for each child. Collecting gifts for any number of children is helpful, anywhere from "adopting" one child's gift requests to 100 children.
We need the gifts by December 16, 2020 at 12pm. We can arrange for pick-up or the toys can be delivered directly to the office.
In addition to collecting toys, we need volunteers to help sort the toys on December 17th and 18th.
We greatly appreciate your interest in supporting the all-volunteer efforts of farm workers and low-paid workers to organize and change their poverty conditions.
If you are interested in purchasing gifts or volunteering, please contact Merry Goldthorpe.