Catholic Church Helps Teach Migrant Workers About Dangers of Pesticides ; Hispanic Workers Trust Guidance From Churches

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PROSSER - The Sunday Mass ended, a handful of Hispanic farmworkers quietly file down the hall to a classroom at Sacred Heart Church. On the wall, a poster warning about the dangers of pesticides goes unnoticed, as does a stack of pamphlets on the table.

But in minutes, four fellow farmworkers have the floor, firing pesticide information in Spanish. The instructions separate work clothes in the laundry, wash up before touching the children aren't new. They've been delivered before, but often not in Spanish, rarely in such detail, and never by an institution farmworkers truly trust: the Catholic Church.

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Catholic Church Helps Teach Migrant Workers About Dangers of Pesticides ; Hispanic Workers Trust Guidance From Churches

With the help of the church, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference has begun offering pesticide training to farmworkers in Washington's ...

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