Farmworker women use their clothes, including bandanas, as protection against sexual violence in the workplace. A California survey found that 90% of farm worker women state that sexual harassment is a major problem.

The Bandana Project was launched in June of 2007 as a part of a national initiative to end workplace sexual violence against farm worker women.  Farmworker Legal Services of New York has joined with the Southern Poverty Law Center to bring the Bandana Project to the farm worker women of New York.

 In solidarity, farm worker community members, advocates and other individuals decorate white bandanas with words of encouragement and inspirational art.

These bandanas are then hung in a public place to raise awareness about this serious problem.