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2002 Highlights
Pizcando Sueños: The Voices of Mexican Farmworker Women, a bi-national project affirming the journey and celebrating the dreams of farmworker women. The RWHP toured Mexico City and Guanajuato facilitating workshops using the farmworker women-developed fotonovelas and the new 12-panel cloth exhibit. Pizcando Sueños was exhibited for three months at the Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, FL and at the 15th Annual East Coast Migrant Stream Forum in Savannah, GA. Completion of the HIV/AIDS Media Campaign in El Paso, TX/ Juarez, Mexico with the Farmworker Justice Fund. This campaign culminated with the recent airing of two RWHP produced testimonial-style PSAs, targeting farmworking men and their companions. Completion of Es Bueno Saberlo, original Mexican music for Florida, Spanish-speaking fathers about KidCare-State of Florida children’s health insurance. Funded by the Florida Department of Health, this completed our three-year media campaign developing informational materials for farmworker families, using fotonovelas and radionovelas. Compartiendo Triunfos: a series of fotonovela stories, posters, radionovelas and Public Service Announcements celebrating parents’ struggles to improve their children’s futures. (This series offers the reaffirmation of education, non-violent discipline, and Spanish as the first language in the home.) We have begun work on a cultural preservation project with Student Action with Farmworkers of North Carolina. We will be using the fotonovela format to record the life and work of Doña Genoveva, an 80-year-old herbalist/midwife and the Tamayo family, specialists in the development of traditional wood furniture from Guanajuato Mexico. New contracts with the California AIDS Clearinghouse, Farmworker Justice Fund and the South Carolina Department of Health for the purchase of our HIV series, Es Mejor Prevenir for farmworkers and our “La Comadre Aprende” novela on condom use has brought national distribution of these materials to over 45,000. |
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