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A. Where is home base
(city/state/country)? Boise, Idaho, U.S.A.
B. What is key constituency or audience? The target audience is not
only the migrant farm worker’s themselves but people that want to join in
their cause of bring pastoral presence in the migrant lives.
C. What are the agency’s main activities? Conference's and
workshop's involving regional workshops for the pastoral leaders,
workshops for the farm workers to understand the sacrament, leadership
work shops for the pastors to convey the sacrament, orientation of new
pastors, regional and national workshops to achieve better communication
between the pastors and the farm workers.
D. Mission statement? Key goals? The Catholic Migrant Farmworker
Network is dedicated to giving migrant farmworkers a sense of belonging
through pastoral presence, acceptance from the community and awareness of
the mistreatment of the farmer worker’s.
E. What are key im/migration issues of concern to this agency? Farm
workers housing, lack of, working with pesticides, child education,
health, labor issues and most of all making them feel part of a community.
F. What is the most common basis for statements issued, agency’s
research, press releases, etc. From what I gathered the most common basis
is from the farm workers themselves.
G. Is the agency noticeably pro or con immigration? Pro.
H. Any publications? (what types, titles) All of the publications
are bilingual catholic booklets, and pamphlets, pertaining to the
sacrament, and goings on in the community.
I. Names of key spokespersons/officers: Celine Caufield
J. Give at least one citation of this group in a news report. (use
a citation index to research this) I have looked now at every database the
library has available and Ny Times, AZ Republic, LA Times, Boise Tribune
and found not one news report! I put quotes around Catholic Migrant
Farmworker Network! I've tried everything you suggested!
K. Other issues of interest? None stated
L. Web site? Give URL
http://www.cmfn.org/index.html
Where is home base (city/state/country)? Boise, Idaho, U.S.A.
B. What is key constituency or audience? The target audience is not
only the migrant farm worker’s themselves but people that want to join in
their cause of bring pastoral presence in the migrant lives.
C. What are the agency’s main activities? Conference's and
workshop's involving regional workshops for the pastoral leaders,
workshops for the farm workers to understand the sacrament, leadership
work shops for the pastors to convey the sacrament, orientation of new
pastors, regional and national workshops to achieve better communication
between the pastors and the farm workers.
D. Mission statement? Key goals? The Catholic Migrant Farmworker
Network is dedicated to giving migrant farm worker’s a sense of belonging
through pastoral presence, acceptance from the community and awareness of
the mistreatment of the farmer worker’s.
E. What are key im/migration issues of concern to this agency? Farm
workers housing, lack of, working with pesticides, child education,
health, labor issues and most of all making them feel part of a community.
F. What is the most common basis for statements issued, agency’s
research, press releases, etc. From what I gathered the most common basis
is from the farm workers themselves.
G. Is the agency noticeably pro or con immigration? Pro.
H. Any publications? (what types, titles) All of the publications
are bilingual catholic booklets, and pamphlets, pertaining to the
sacrament, and goings on in the community.
I. Names of key spokespersons/officers: Celine Caufield
J. Give at least one citation of this group in a news report. (use
a citation index to research this) I have looked now at every database the
library has available and Ny Times, AZ Republic, LA Times, Boise Tribune
and found not one news report! I put quotes around Catholic Migrant
Farmworker Network! I've tried everything you suggested!
K. Other issues of interest? None stated
L. Web site? Give URL
http://www.cmfn.org/index.html
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