EMPODERARNOS

Empowering Ourselves

We Stand Together

Through providing connections to safe organizations, tangible resources, support, and more we are able to provide a foundation for farmworkers to stand atop and empower themselves.

Empoderarnos seeks to change the lack of resources and support through assisting our community in self empowerment while having a shoulder to lean on.

Every life matters.

Those that are forced to live in the shadows are too often forgotten.

They have beautiful hearts, families, full lives, and wonderful communities.

They deserve to have safety, warmth, kindness, and compassion.

Tangible Resources

Every month staff and interns of Empoderarnos visit farmworker camps around Marion County, OR and deliver tangible, needed resources.

These resources range from:

Food and hydration
Hygiene products
Warm and cool weather resources
Clothing
Spinal, muscle, and joint support wraps
Holiday toys and gifts for youth
Infant and toddler supplies
Kitchen/cooking supplies
And many other quality of life resources

Sustainable Connections

It is deeply important to us that we are able to offer our communities more than short term resources. We work with community partners to bring longer term, sustainable resources out to the people themselves.

This could include:

Pesticide Informative Workshops
Health and dental services
Vaccines and health testing
Housing Services
And much more!

In addition, Empoderarnos is working to create accessible, in camp resource books highlighting local, safe resources and organizations.

This will be published on our website when it is finished for 2024.

Young Adult Internships

Empoderarnos seeks to serve farmworkers from the perspective of the farmworker and their family. While our staff mirror the identities and life experiences of farmworkers, we see that it is of utmost importance to provide a way for young farmworkers or families of farmworkers to give back to their community.

Through short term, paid internships young adults from these communities are able to lead and guide Empoderarnos to best serve the real needs of farmworker communities.

2023 Winter Toy

& Resource Event

Our Winter Toy and Resource Event in partnership with Oregon Human Development Corporation (OHDC) is one of our biggest events of the year.

We were able to provide resources, food, fun, toys, coats, and more to families from Woodburn Highschool, Farmworker Housing in and around Woodburn, and Farmworkers from Camps around Woodburn.

At this single event, hosted by Chemeketa Community College, and a farmworker camp distribution, we were able to serve:

Total Families: 240

Total Youth: 537

Youth Ages Breakdown:

0-2 years old: 86 3-5 years old: 111

6-8 years old: 118 9-12 years old: 150

13-18 years old: 65

7 youth of unknown ages at specific camp

This event was made possible because of generous donations, volunteers, and partners!

We had amazing volunteers, a lot of which were from Chemeketa’s SAW Club.

We received donations of toys and gifts from Woodburn Les Schwab, Toys for Tots, Woodburn Accident Care Chiropractic, Family Building Blocks, and OHDC!

Many local organizations made the event possible and came to distribute resources: