A number of these potential problem areas were anticipated and reported by State directors and should have been resolved before the NCLR grant was approved. 6. National Association of Farmworkers Organization: The National Association of Farmworkers Organization (NAFO) is a Washington. D.C.based coalition of farmworker groups established for the purpose of advocating and lobbying for the civil and labor rights of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. In April 1978. NAFO was awarded a grant in the amount of $49.775. It was intended as a pilot project which. if successful. would be expanded in the fall of 1978 to support an additional 35 volunteers. As of midOctober. evaluation of the pilot project was still pending. VISTAs working with NAFO are to be assigned to amenable "family" crews in one of the three migrant streams for the purpose of organizing advisory councils and educating farmworkers about their civil rights and protections under other applicable laws. Initial recruitment efforts under the grant were unsuccessful. Of the five potential volunteers recruited in June 1977. only one remained with the program. Four additional VISTAs were subsequently hired and placed but not until well after the pilot project was supposed to get under way. Because of recruiting difficulties. experience at the time the Investigative Staff reviewed the grant was limited to the activities of the one initial recruit who had remained with the program. She was assigned to the Delmarva Ecumenical Council (DEC) and was trying to identify migrants or other local farmworkers with a potential for leadership and an interest in being trained to serve on the DEC Executive Board. This assignment was expected to continue until later in the year at which time it was planned that the volunteer would go to Florida for the citrus harvest. Many questions have been raised about the NAFO grant which reflects a fundamental concern about the practicability of the concept.
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