Indigenous Language Outreach

Speakers of Indigenous languages, Spanish, and Punjabi can learn about how to stay safe during floods and other natural disasters by watching these preparedness videos, created in partnership with United Way Fresno and Madera Counties, Centro de Unidad Popular Benito Juárez, Jakara Movement and Binational of Central California to bring important disaster safety information to immigrant and farmworker communities in their native languages.

This was a first-of-its-kind effort to leverage the strong oral tradition prevalent among California’s farmworkers by delivering preparedness information through audio in a variety of languages commonly spoken by our essential farmworkers, including indigenous languages. Listos California provided a grant to United Way Fresno and Madera Counties (UWFM) to collaborate in partnership with Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño (CBDIO) and Mixteco / Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) to create audio recordings of disaster preparedness information. Videos in indigenous languages were created in partnership with Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa and Movimiento Cultural Indigena, Napa and Sonoma Counties.

Listos California also worked in partnership with CBOs supporting the farmworker community, farm owners, and county agriculture commissioners from eight counties in the Central Valley as well as state agencies to bring this critical information to farmworkers through events, text messaging, radio and educational programs.