SAF has two life-changing programs supporting agricultural workers and their families.
Applications due Feb. 11, 2011
Into the Fields Internship (10-week summer Program)
Spend your summer meeting and supporting the people who plant, harvest and produce the food you eat everyday! Through Into the Fields you will support and organize farmworkers, get trained on the issues surrounding their lives and the broader context of the agricultural industry. SAF places approximately 25 college students to work with organizations in the Southeast that serve, organize or advocate for farmworker justice including migrant health clinics, legal aid, community-based organizations and Migrant Education programs. Interns also participate in a Theater Group or complete a Documentary Project with farmworkers.
To qualify you must speak intermediate to advanced Spanish. To be preferenced you must be a college student from a farmworker family or be a student from the Southeast.
Benefits include $1350 total per diem, $1500 scholarship, free furnished housing, free trainings, and academic credit available.
http://www.saf-unite.org/students/itf/index.htm
Sowing Seeds for Change Fellowship (6-month Program)
The Sowing Seeds for Change Fellowship is a 6 month leadership development program for college students and recent graduates to improve farmworkers' access to healthcare as well as advocate for improved living and working conditions.Through Sowing Seeds for Change you will support health clinics and get trained on the issues surrounding farmworkers' lives and the broader context of the agricultural industry. Student Action with Farmworkers will place 5 fellows with health clinics that serve farmworkers in North Carolina. They will be trained alongside our 25 summer interns at 3 retreats. SAF fellows and interns come from diverse backgrounds and about half are from farmworker families. Fellows also participate in a Theater Group or complete a Documentary Project with farmworkers.
Benefits include $9,000 stipend, room and board at trainings, academic credit available. Fellows will set up their own housing and will use their stipend to cover living expenses.
http://www.saf-unite.org/students/ssc/index.htm
Contact Rosalva Soto, Program Coordinator, Student Action with Farmworkers
919-660-3674, rosalva.soto@duke.edu
SAF Program Director
919-660-3660
www.saf-unite.org
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