Each June and October, the Emory Farmworker Project provides free health care to more than 2,000 farmworkers and their families, a population that plays a key role in Georgia’s billion-dollar fruit and vegetable industry but often lacks access to even basic medical care.
Its pop-up field clinics meet a critical public health need while giving clinical teams experience in treating a wide range of conditions — everything from health screenings for patients who have never received any sort of clinical care to women in labor or workers with serious acute illnesses.
“You meet the people you serve at a difficult time, providing amazing, lifesaving services and information. These are things we do not get in our communities. You not only bring health, well-being, and happiness, but you also bring us unity.”
— Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate and son of migrant farmworkers, at the project’s 20th-anniversary celebration in 2016
