SNL Partners with National Center for Farmworker Health to Educate Migrant Workers about Bird Flu

Strangers No Longer has built a team of bi-lingual organizers to contact dairy farmworkers in Michigan about avoiding the very dangerous Bird Flu.  They are working in the Thumb (Sanilac, Lapeer, Huron and Tuscola Counties), in the M-127 Corridor (Lansing to Mt. Pleasant) and in Van Buren County in SW Michigan.  In addition, the outreach organizers are doing 1-1’s with local pastors, school principals and county health departments in order to create a community-wide team able to give information on Bird Flu.  SNL was awarded a grant from the National Center for Farmworker Health (Texas) to do this work — they had the funds from a grant from the Center for Disease Control.  We are partnering with the Michigan Dept. of Health and Human Services in this effort.  The 5 Outreach Organizers build relationships,  arrange presentations, and distribute materials to migrant workers and their families. To arrange a presentation, contact SNL Bird Flu Project Manager, Carmen Luna, lunacarelly@gmail.com.