Support Our Work / Apoye Nuestro Trabajo

Volunteering & Supporter List

RAMA invites and welcomes members of the community to support our work & get involved. You may choose to help once a year or once a week! There are plenty of things to do:

  • Accompany migrant workers to the doctor, chiropractor, Service Canada office, store or other venue to ensure their fair and smooth access to social and commercial services
  • Attend events that bring migrant farmworkers into the communities where they live and work
  • Break bread, share meals, run errands with farmworkers
  • Translate and interpret for migrant farmworkers with employers, government officials, community members and other workers
  • Teach free English lessons for migrant farmworkers
  • Support RAMA’s efforts to advocate for workers’ rights and freedoms at the level of the municipal, provincial and federal governments

If you are available to support workers please email ramaokanagan@gmail.com.

To sign up for RAMA’s general mailing list (for press releases and event notifications), please use the form below:

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Financial Support

RAMA is an unincorporated non-profit association run entirely by volunteers. We are not registered with any government authority, nor do we accept any government or corporate funding. At present, we are financially sustained by donations from individual allies and non-profit associations as well as through in-kind contributions of labour, food, transportation, etcetera.

We have no paid staff and no public-facing office. Our overhead costs include a phone number and website expenses. 100% of our funding is channeled towards organizing efforts, direct support work with migrant farmworkers, community-building projects, and public awareness campaigns.

If you would like to make a financial contribution, you can make a donation by PayPal, or cheques can be made out to “RAMA” and mailed to the following address:

RAMA
1300 Mountain View Rd.
Armstrong, BC
V0E 1B8
CANADA


In a typical month, RAMA expenses may include:

  • Materials for English classes
  • The cost of gas for organizers driving to and from remote farms
  • Provision of food for RAMA gatherings and community events with workers
  • Bus rentals to transport migrant men and women to and from events
  • Long distance phone calls between organizers and workers’ families
  • Printing of flyers and posters for outreach, events and education
  • Legal counsel and emergency funding for workers in crisis

RAMA is grateful for past funding we have received from the Federation of Post Secondary Educators (FPSE) of British Columbia, Freedonia, and the West Coast Domestic Workers Association, and the British Columbia Government & Service Employees Union (BCGEU).

We also partner with other organizations in the Okanagan, including Okanagan College Faculty Association (OCFA).

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