Farmworker Awareness Week events set at UI

United Farm Workers Foundation programs director Fatima Hernandez will give the keynote address for the University of Idaho's National Farmworker Awareness Week today.

The free event starts at 7 p.m. in the Vandal Ballroom of the Bruce M. Pitman Center.

The daughter of farmworkers and herself an immigrant, Hernandez helps immigrants through naturalization, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and family petitions in her role at the foundation, according to a UI news release.

The 17th annual awareness week is organized by UI's Office of Equity and Diversity and College Assistance Migrant Program.

Other National Farmworker Awareness Week events at the UI include:

• A long-sleeve shirt drive, through Friday. Shirts collected will be donated to help Idaho farm workers protect themselves against sun and pesticide exposure.
• National Cesar E. Chavez Blood Drive Challenge, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday in the Teaching and Learning Center foyer.
• The film "Cesar Chavez" will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Pitman Center's Borah Theater. The free screening is organized by the Office of Multicultural Affairs.