The NMSHSA Internship Class of 2016 take a lunch break during their visit to Virginia’s Eastern Shore and its farmworker families. “Going through the center and seeing those little kids I saw my brother, I saw my two sisters, I saw myself – all present in the form of these young souls.” – Misael Rangel On Friday, July 22, our Head Start Center in Parksley, Virginia, hosted a visit by the National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association’s Summer Internship Class of 2016.  

Jimina Villafuerte is the ECMHSP Policy Council Treasurer and a farmworker parent. This is her story. I am Jimina Villafuerte and I have the privilege to be the Treasurer of the Policy Council for East Coast Migrant Head Start Project (ECMHSP). This is the story of how I came to be on the Policy Council and what that means to me. It all started by just enrolling my son this past year at a Migrant & Seasonal Head Start Center in Whiteville, North Carolina. The Niños Migrant He