FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Clovis Community College is “Honoring Cesar Chavez and his legacy” on Tuesday.
His son, Paul Chavez, will be speaking about his father, at 10 a.m. at Clovis Community College’s Forum Hall
Cesar Chavez, organized the union that would become the United Farm Workers of America.
As a young boy in the early 1960s, Paul joined his seven brothers and sisters on weekends in Central Valley farm towns, handing out leaflets.
Paul and his family endured the hardships and sacrifices of the five-year long Delano grape strike and boycott, and the struggles that followed.
Since 1991, Paul Chavez has led the Cesar Chavez Foundation, also founded in the ‘60s.
He spearheaded the growth of the Chavez foundation, dramatically impacting the lives of farm workers, Latinos and other poor working families across the Southwest.
Under his leadership, its affordable housing portfolio has grown to 42 communities with nearly 5,000 units of high-quality, amenity-intensive housing with extensive social services for low- and very-low income working families and seniors in four states. It has also undertaken economic development projects.
The Chavez foundation’s Education Fund provides after-school and summer enrichment programs at its affordable housing communities for residents’ children as well as active senior programs.
It performs academic tutoring for thousands of underperforming students, assists school districts with testing of students and runs summer school programs for them.
Clovis Community College is serves 43% Latino students.
Cesar Chavez Day is celebrated on his birthday coming up on March 31st.
