ABOUT US
ABOUT US
Our Mission
Migrant Farmworkers Project is a hospitality and pastoral care ministry that accompanies and empowers migrant farmworkers during their work season in the Niagara region. We build bridges and bring together seasonal migrant farmworkers, volunteers, and community partners, as we together make community and provide a safe space for a mutual relationship. We provide seasonal migrant workers access to important services using an integrated approach. We actively support the spiritual, pastoral, emotional, mental, medical, and physical needs of Spanish-speaking migrant farmworkers in the Niagara region as we welcome, connect, and engage with them, showing our gratitude for their commitment and dedication to the agriculture of Canada.
About
Each year over 4,000 migrant farmworkers become our neighbours in the Niagara region for up to eight months of the year. Of this, over half are Spanish speakers from Mexico. The seasonal workers leave their families and countries to come to Canada and work in the vineyards, orchards, farms and greenhouses that bring your Ontario grown produce, flowers and wines.
Migrant Farmworkers Project engages the seasonal farmworkers, farmers, volunteers, community partners to work and make community together. The Project provides the seasonal workers access to needed services to address their holistic needs including physical, emotional, and spiritual. Migrant Farmworkers Project builds welcoming relationships and safe spaces with seasonal migrant workers.
The Project engages the migrant farmworker community by facilitating and operating several programs. These programs are Bikes for Farmworkers; Quest Health Clinic with translators; Tiendita (thrift shop) and pastoral care.
We are all connected.
We need our farms.
- Our food comes from farms.
- Our wineries need the grapes and fruit grown on our farms.
- Our farm equipment industry needs farms.
- Our economy depends on farms.
- Many farms need migrant workers.
Facts About Niagara
Wineries
%
of Canada's grape production
farms totalling 215,000+ acres
greenhouses totalling 22+ million square feet
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