Steve Mainster,
Executive Director

PO Box 343449
Florida City, FL 33034

Phone: (305) 245-7738
Fax: (305) 247-2619

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County Served: DeSotto, Hardee, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach

Incorporated: 1975

Centro Campesino Farmworkwer Center, Inc. (CCFCI) has worked to improve the lives of farmworkers for over thirty years. When it was first founded, Centro’s primary goal was to ensure that farmworkers had adequate rental housing. At the time, the available housing was overpriced and shoddily made, which lead to many of the workers being forced to sleep in their cars and trucks. Soon, however, the mission expanded to include other pressing issues such as ensuring that migrant families received proper health care, helping local schools deal with immigrant children who did not speak English, and putting a halt to the poor working conditions and unfair wages that many farmworkers had to endure.

Over the years, CCFCI has had resounding success throughout southern Florida. They have not only built affordable homes and neighborhoods for farmers, but worked to support diverse groups of low income families in their community. They have also acted as an invaluable resource when natural disaster strikes. When hurricanes Andrew, Charlie, Jean, and Francis blew through Florida, destroying countless numbers of farmworker housing, CCFCI helped the community rebuild and recover. Recently, they have developed an after school program, which they hope will combat the alarmingly high dropout rate for farmworker children in South Miami Dade County schools.

To learn more about the Centro Campesino Farmworker Center, Inc. visit http://www.centrocampesino.org/.