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2003 Highlights We are pleased to have been awarded funds for “Creando Nuestra Salud” a HIV/STD/Women’s Health series of workshops for women served through Migrant Education in Putnam and Levy counties. Our friends at Suwannee River AHEC funded this. We celebrated our third year in Lake and Sumter counties with our youth project, ¡Sígame! This year, working out of Groveland, we facilitated a series of positive health options & creative arts workshops as a new mechanism for the youth to address self-esteem and healthy choices. The outcomes included, Tightworks a bilingual magazine of the youth’s work and a spirited radio PSA that focused on positive choices and goal setting. The Department of Health-Office of Minority Health Promotion funds this year’s work. The Pizcando Sueños project entered its promotional and exhibition phase. The Pizcando Sueños exhibits were up for almost the entire year with exhibits at the Mexican Consulate in Orlando, FL. (five-month run), the 13th Annual Midwest Farmworker Stream Forum, and with the Migrant Advocates of Lexington Kentucky [and workshop training]. Most excitingly, Pizcando Sueños presented at the Florida Museum of Natural History in connection with a summer long exhibit on textiles and women’s cooperatives from Chiapis, Mexico. Thousands of people viewed the exhibit; highlighting the struggles faced by Mexicans as they try to survive their economic realities, while still holding on to their culture once crossing the border. Accompanied by community participants from the Pizcando Sueños project, the RWHP presented Pizcando Sueños research findings as part of 13th Annual Midwest Farmworker Stream Forum in Houston, TX and at the West Coast Migrant Stream Forum in Seattle, WA.
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