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Community Garden Feeding the Community
Thanks to a grant from the Ashland Food Coop Unete’s community garden is providing healthy foods for our Latino Community and also teaching Latino youth important agriculture skills passed down from generations of farmers.
“Its always fun to watch children discover the earth through gardening, tasting the fresh tomatoes straight off the vine,” says Dagoberto Morales. “Many of us, as children, spent hours in the fields with our parents growing food for our family and also to sell.
“We lived off the earth and we were taught to respect it and be thankful for what it provided for us. We want to pass this tradition down to our children here, far from our homeland.”
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Join us as we march for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Wednesday.. May 1st…3:30 pm meet at Alba park in Medford then march to Vogel Plaza for speakers and action!! Unete con nosotros para la marcha para la reforma migratoria miércoles 1ro de mayo 3:30pm en el parque Alba y de ahí marchamos hasta la Plaza Vogel para oradores y
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Voces Unidas parent group meets every Monday at 6:00pm at the Unete office to learn about how to help their children be successful in school and learn about their rights and responsibilities as parents. This dynamic group is developing local Latino leadership and is working to improve outcomes for Latino youth in the public education system. Participating parents are from both
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Whoa, What a Week!!!
Whoa What a Week!! April 22 Voces Unidas met to rehearse for Cesar Chavez event and upcoming trainings. April 23 Tutoring and English language classes plus youth rehearsed for Cesar Chavez event. April 24 Cesar Chavez celebration–…youth from around the valley showing their individual and group talents..LIFE Art debuted its newest work honoring Cesar Chavez..Those kids are amazing…April 25 Tutoring and English classes..April
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Events
Parent Meetings for Latino Student Success Unete, in collaboration with the Latino Advisory Committee is sponsoring three parent meetings, directed at increasing parental involvement in their children’s education. The gatherings are scheduled for October 19 at South Medford High School, 6:00pm, October 26 Jackson Elementary School at 5:30pm and November 2, at Hedrick Middle School at 6:00pm. These parent led meetings will
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Classes/Clases
Citizenship Classes Title: Citizenship Classes Location: 27 N Ivy St Description: Free Citizenship classes in English and Spanish..For more info contact Unete at 541-245-1625 Start Time: 18:30 Date: 2011-08-26
Unete in the News
Dual Citizenship Source of Pride for Mexican Nationals As part of Unete’s ongoing efforts to bring needed services to our community, we will be hosting the Mexican Consulate on July 30 and 31. The mobile Consulate offers services to Mexican Nationals in rural areas of the state. The Consulate realizes that for many of their citizens, travel to Portland is difficult and have
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