Monday, July 30, 2012

Seasonal workers are here!

We welcome seasonal workers from all over the world - Ukraine, Jordan, Taiwan, Lithuania, Jamaica, Moldova, China, Russia, Dominican Republic, Serbia, and more!  They are hired by motels, restaurants, and tourist venues and provide an important workforce for our local businesses.  Many work two - and even three - jobs.

For the past several years the Diversity Forum has welcomed them and provided loaner bicycles so that they can get back and forth to work and to shopping.  We've also had social events for them so that they can get to know each other and to sample some American food.  The following photos are form our welcome party in June.  They had a great time!








1 comment:

Health.Life.Love said...

Hi, I'm a reporter with Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover, NH looking to do a story about an effort in Kittery to improve housing options for foreign exchange students. If someone from the York Diversity Forum could get in touch with me at keefe.jen@gmail.com that would be great, just looking for info on the York program and how it's helped the students. Thank you!