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Presbyterian Hunger Program Awards Grant to Rural & Migrant Ministry
In October, Rural & Migrant Ministry gratefully accepted a grant from the Presbyterian Hunger Program for our work at the Liturgia Rural Workers Education Center. We want to extend our thanks to all Presbyterians who contributed to One Great Hour of Sharing to support the grant program.
Liturgia is a welcoming space where farmworkers in Central New York get to know each other and learn about workplace rights and grassroots organizing. This knowledge is the foundation for strengthening the Justice for Farmworkers campaign, an effort to establish fairer working conditions for farmworkers. As farmworkers come together to learn how to make their voices heard with policy makers, they're joined by people of faith and others who are also receiving training at Liturgia.
All of these efforts fall under the Hunger Program’s category of Public Policy Advocacy, which addresses the root causes of hunger by dismantling “oppressive and unjust systems that fail to meet basic needs." The people whose labor puts food on our tables live in poverty, but the support of the Hunger Program will help farmworkers to change that unjust situation.
Thank you again for joining in this work!
Laurie Konwinski,
Grants Coordinator
Rural & Migrant Ministry,
WNY Office
324 West Buffalo Street
Ithaca NY 14850
607-272-5062, ext. 12
Presbytery Partnership Group Awards Grant to Rural & Migrant Ministry
The Western New York Presbytery Partnership Group has awarded a $5,000 grant for support of Rural & Migrant Ministry, to the Presbytery of Genesee Valley.
Rural & Migrant Ministry is a mission partner of the Presbytery.
The organization will be holding a conference in the Catskills on the weekend of October 15, 2011, in conjunction with its 30th anniversary. They will bring together a large group of people from the rural and migrant communities and allies from the faith communities to explore issues of rural transformation.
They wish to be intentional about inviting the disenfranchised farmworkers, rural workers and rural women from the Rochester/Buffalo/Geneva region. The grant will cover the cost of transportation, lodging and translators for this group of people.
Learn more about the conference here.