Farmworkers

For many hardworking families in Southwest Florida, the challenge isn't just putting food on the table. It's finding the time and opportunity to access available resources while balancing work, family responsibilities, and the rising cost of everyday living.

RCMA serves thousands of families in 18 Florida counties.

In the darkness, it is difficult to spot the numerous farmworkers in Immokalee riding bicycles on their way home. A local organization is working to change that.

Marco Antonio Hernandez Guevara had just begun his first day on a job in Southwest Florida farm fields when he is believed to have succumbed to heat stroke.

A bus carrying farmworkers that police said left from the Immokalee area earlier, overturned on Tuesday in central Florida, killing eight people and injuring about 40 other passengers, authorities said.The bus was transporting 53 farmworkers at about 6:40 a.m. when it collided with a truck in Marion County, north of Orlando, the Florida Highway Patrol said.The Florida Highway Patrol said the bus had left from the Immokalee area earlier in the day.

Lucas Benitez is a founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. He is now in the company of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, John Lewis and the 14th Dali Lama of Tibet

Biographer Laura Tillman recounts Lalo Garcia's memories of working in the Florida fields.

The Fair Food Program, the signature creation of Coalition of Immokalee Workers, is expanding internationally.

An Immokalee-based organization has earned a $100,000 prize that it will use to expand its network.