Hardworking hands belong to hardworking people. Basic health and safety supplies are not always affordable. The GLOVE PROJECT supports low income farmers and farm workers by providing new gloves for planting, harvest, pruning, livestock care, and fencing and machinery repair. Bring a new clean pair of work gloves to the SAEA Conference. Look for the basket near the Registration desk. Give GLOVES today . . . building toward an culture of caring, health and safety for all people who work in agriculture.

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Arthritis and skin conditions affect the hands of people in all lines of work. Work gloves are expensive. They also wear out or needs to be disposed due to contamination. Gloves are considered personal safety attire and not always provided or affordable by people working in farming. Gloves protect hands from pathogens, infections from scrapes, irritating and caustic substances, and from extreme hot and cold. In an Iowa State University study by then-masters student Emilie Justen in Horticulture, work supplies including gloves were cited in focus groups as not provided to Latino workers in Iowa. Latino horticultural workers, like many farmer and farmworkers, can be given a boost by providing a humble but important shield: a pair of work gloves. The GLOVE project collects clean, new work gloves of all types and sizes. Donations of conference goers will be provided to a program that currently supports new and low income farmers and farmworkers. It's one way to give to back the community that hosts this conference.

Contact: Nancy Grudens-Schuck, Associate Prof., GLOVE coordinator, Dept Ag Ed and Studies, 217 Curtiss Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 ngs@iastate.edu OR Amber Anderson Mba, SAEA conference coordinator, PO Box 8988, Ames, IA 50014, saeiowa@gmail.com.