NC Farmworkers Project

NC Farmworkers Project

The NC Farmworkers’ Project serves as the resource center, home base, and connection to care for more than 2,000 farmworkers in five counties around Benson, North Carolina

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Promotores

The Farmworkers’ Project has a long history of working with farmworker promotores, or lay health educators, since we follow a popular education model and believe in empowering farmworkers themselves as teachers in their own communities. In 2016, we started a two-year pilot program to train lay health educators in farmworker camps in our areas. Ten farmworkers participated in trainings about health education topics, and presented what they learned in their own camps with their co-workers and in neighboring farmworker camps. In 2017, we will train 15-20 farmworkers throughout the summer on health education topics and leadership, and give them opportunities to practice sharing what they’ve learned with other farmworkers. Promotores are also trained to facilitate discussion around topics important to farmworkers at their camps.

Key Contact

Leonardo Galvan, Outreach Worker and Community Educator
Phone: 919-915-2232

Leonardo Galvan, Outreach Worker and Community Educator

Phone: 919-915-2232

Leonardo Galvan currently works as an outreach worker in the health program, where he leads a promotores program with farmworkers, inviting workers themselves to be lay health leaders among their peers. Before serving in this capacity at the Project, for 13 years he conducted research projects with Wake Forest University, where he gained experience in research around pesticides and farmworker living conditions. In his free time, Leonardo is director of his church choir and volunteers transporting workers so that they can attend mass. Leonardo has been a farmworker himself since the age of eight, growing cotton, beans, corn, melons, watermelons, and pumpkins in his parents’ fields. He did his high school studies in Mexico, where he obtained a certificate of [agricultural techniques?]. Afterwards he began studying agronomy in the university, but could not finish his studies there for lack of economic resources. He then saw the necessity of coming to the United States. He was a farmworker in the US for 10 years before becoming involved with the NC Farmworkers’ Project. He worked for different farmers in Virginia, Florida, and North Carolina, in several different crops. In doing this, he gained insight into farmworkers’ lives, and he remains involved in the activities and needs of farmworkers, helping them to confront different barriers that they face.

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