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Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters - AFWH
Forest workers and harvesters directly affect forest ecosystem health. Government agencies, private companies, tribes and non-profit organizations depend on workers to implement their natural resource policies and management plans. Though they plant, thin, and harvest in remote areas, forest workers also serve as a link between the land and their communities. The conditions under which they labor rates of pay, exposure to occupational risks, and treatment by superiors are reflected on the ground and in the fabric of their social lives.
The Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters (AFWH) recognizes the unique connection forest laborers establish between ecosystems and communities. Committed to improving the lives of forest workers and harvesters as well as forest ecosystem health, the Alliance strives to increase awareness of working conditions and promote a stewardship ethic. The AFWH believes the knowledge, experience, and perspectives of forest workers and harvesters must inform and drive community-based forestry.
The fundamental goal of the AFWH is to integrate and honor all ways to use and create a healthy forest. We pursue this goal through four principal activities: 1) outreach and organizing, 2) developing advanced skills in ecosystem restoration, 3) monitoring of working and environmental conditions, and 4) collaborating with other community-based forestry groups, partners and agencies. We build community among diverse ethnicities and interests by focusing on a shared objective: sustaining and restoring community and ecosystem vigor.
As an organization, the AFWH seeks to provide sustainable natural resources for cultural and economic use. The community represented by the AFWH includes local and mobile, multi cultural, forest workers and harvesters. The Alliance promotes stewardship ethics within its membership. The AFWH encourages actual people, with livelihoods affected by land management policies and practices, to be involved in decision-making processes. The Alliance also promotes management entities to value input from workers.
The AFWH asserts, forest workers and harvesters deserve respect, recognition, and just compensation for their physical and technical abilities. The Alliance also acknowledges that forest workers value training in restoration approaches, and seek opportunities to enhance their skills. Since workers and harvesters are the ones who actually carry out restoration policies and plans, the work they do has a direct, immediate impact on the land. Enhancing worker and harvester knowledge of and skills in best restoration practice is thus critical to long-term ecosystem health.
The AFWH is able to actively engage multi cultural forest workers and harvesters throughout the year in order to discuss their views, stories, experiences ideas and solutions to better inform land management decisions. Your donation will further the work of this grassroots organization.
