Project Report
| May 9, 2023
They supply our food, we can supply their care!
By Christine Cronin | Executive Director
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Due to all of your wonderful support and the volunteers from the CARE collective made up of Livity Rising, Integrative Healers Action Network (IHAN) and Acupuncturists Without Borders, we continue to serve the migrant farmworker community. Since the levee broke on March 11, 2023, we have provided over 400 treatments (acupuncture, massage, chiropractic care) to the Pajaro community.
The care given by the CARE collaborative is, in many cases, the only medical care the Pajaro community receives. They suffer from chronic pain and extreme stress - both of which have only been made worse by the severe weather over the last few months. Many of them have lost their jobs as a result of the severe weather. With the levee break, they lost their homes and belongings to water, mud and mold. This is a community that deserves our care. If you cannot provide time, please provide your financial support.
The California farmworker community produces 1/3 of all vegetables and 3/4 of all the fruits and nuts for the United States. 90% of all strawberries are grown in California.
We need to support those who allow us to have food on our tables! Please give generously!
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Jan 11, 2023
New Year, Big Dreams!
By Stephanie Alvarez | Director of Development
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Dear Friends,
I hope your 2023 is off to a great start. The CARE Collaborative has been hitting the ground running in this new year, applying for grants, coordinating this year's clinics, strengthening our community outreach capacity and we have some very exciitng news!
We are hoping to expand this year to provide another mobile clinic location in Watsonville! Thanks to a 3-year grant from the County of Santa Cruz, we have been able to fund and strengthen our current clinic in collaboration with the Center for Farmworker Families. This allows us to also build more partnerships with other community projects and provide services where they are needed.
This work started thanks to your initial support and we want to take this space to show you and express our gratitude for believing in us. These seeds we collectively planted are finally growing and making a growing impact on the lives of so many farmworker families throughout the county of Santa Cruz!
During the first year of the pilot project, we provided over 1200 treatments. This year we are planning to provide over 1500 more, including new modalities of integrative and preventive care services to promote a vibrant and healthy community.
In the Spirit of Service,
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Sep 13, 2022
Care at the CORE of our Communities
By Stephanie Alvarez | Director of Development
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Dear Friends
As summer fades into autumn, we are active once again continuing our monthly outdoor clinics in Watsonville, serving hundreds of people from the farmworker community. We have been hard at work creating local partnerships to ensure the sustainability of our program and have some great news! - We were able to secure a grant through the CORE Investments initiative to continue our collective project alive and growing!
We are so grateful to the govenment of the County of Santa Cruz for believing in this grassroots approach to promoting well-being and access to quality health services for everyone. While this grant is set to cover a large portion of our program expenses, our project will still need $8,000 - 10,000 extra per year to continue. To our recurring donors, we are so grateful for your sustainable support! You keep us going!
If you are interested in becoming a recurring donor for this project, please feel free to do so via the GlobalGiving platform. We have some exciting project expansions and partnership ideas to continue meeting the high demand for services that we have been seeing. We will continue to keep you updated!
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