fact has blood on it from limbs that have yet to feel. what should be done with the stone or from africa. this is being hotly debated on both continents. so much so the store september 7th on g.w. . look at that. cranberries blueberries the delicacies that grow in sweden's forests there harvested by seasonal workers and they come from thailand. the have us help us fly halfway around the world they work in scandinavia for 2 months the swedish companies are placed. my lamb got out for the good times hope each other they just work very well together in the group what we europeans can do with that bring it

into your. 8000 kilometers from the farm highlands searches for the radio loud berry she's one of 6202 high people roaming through sweden's forests to be able to pick berries here she had to take out a loan for the trip will she end up doing good business $11.00 point we have to make an effort because 1st we have to pay back the debts that we have incurred and then there are all the expenses here but if everything goes well hopefully we can make a little money next month and match up income i can add it to fool the org. one way they're proud of the souvenir from the forests of sweden and elks antlers loom over. the. the 5 year old has been flying to sweden for 20 years for

a few months every year today it's time again. to care song but i knew my it's only 2 months old but i can make a lot of money during that time sure it also means we have to work day and night on what i and my year but if everything goes well we make good money if i don't get me . his wife is visiting a neighbor she's coloring her hair quickly before things get going so we're not really fair and 6. even if it won't be a vacation is looking forward to the long journey when i look at my hair is getting gray hair and gray or i'm going to have to look good and sweden i won't have time to do it there that's why i'm going to do it here quickly and my lease is helping me with it. and the money. before they have to leave

they want to ask for a good dairy harvest in sweden up stairs in the small prayer room. but they don't kneel before the buddha but in front of a stacks head. on my. left hand was mutilated in an accident in a textile factory in taiwan over 20 years ago but he doesn't let it hold him back. you know. i ask that i make a lot of money and not get sick i want to be healthy and strong with. a family when i pray that we'll be lucky and find lots of berries and that the spirits will protect our house and our daughter form. the province of tiny is home to. rice fields and sugarcane plantations characterize

the landscape in northeastern thailand a 130 families live in the village of ban land someone from almost every family has been to sweden and who wants to show us where he and his wife will be working this year he has relied on his old street atlas for years feel uses that to navigate safely through the foreign country but whether the trip will be worth it in the end is anything but certain. me. my one man on my girl who is we're under a lot of pressure both of us are going so we've taken out a loan that's twice as high i'm worried because we just don't know if we can find enough berries but if we can do it together we could make twice as much money. in. the couple took a big financial risk to be able to earn money in sweden dominant pile in a check to take out a loan at $75000.00 baht the equivalent of just under $2200.00 euros i

borrowed the money directly from the thai employment agency it includes a fee as well as the cost of the flight and the work permit. 'd they were given this contract it's supposed to guarantee them fair working conditions and a minimum wage of almost 2000 euros per month. to come here in order for trouble. anybody to apply the contract says you work 8 hours a day 6 days a week sunday is a day off but the contract is just a formality so that we can get to sweden in the 1st place but in all of money this is just a piece of paper because there it's very simple the more you pick the more you earn like you are now my. word has got around the northeast of thailand that there is a country 1000 kilometers away where hard work is paid much better than here chiang

heard about it. and this is the opportunity of my lifetime. i'm already 44 i'm glad i now i want to try it and do my best to get up there. until now he has his money on the sugarcane plantations but he too wants to follow the code to sweden for the 1st time. ok. what. today is my last day here. there will be no work on the sugar cane plantations or the rice fields in the next few weeks. there is nothing left for me to do until harvest time. if things go well he gets around $300.00 euros a month for harvest. it's enough to survive nothing more. than

. chang lives in this house with his family the top floor is uninhabitable the wood walls have been eaten away by to mind his. family life now takes down here without morals or privacy. i'd like to renovate the house and maybe open a little shop here. and if the money is enough maybe i can still afford a car or a small piece of land that i can cultivate myself. his wife like has long fought for chang to be given a chance to go to sweden until now he has not been able to afford a job as a berry pick up he lacked the collateral for a loan. that's why they sell chickens few is every afternoon only that way could

they make a small downpayment they borrowed the rest of the money from the employment agency it also means lex life could finally improve to fall but how much am i said that i've seen our neighbors bring money home and suddenly they can afford a car and farmland and more when we see that we have hope we also want what they have. now clearly. looking for. a better future for themselves and for their daughter but will this dream come true. palin and who don't pack their last things piling is accompanying her husband to sweden for the 11th time. now have you also thought about the food. ready.

and what about bags for the berries fornicate. the bags for collecting the berries and palin prefer to rely on their own the quick mint and their own ingredients gummy there are so many things we bring drug chili sticky rice bamboo shoots my hand i know we need all of these ingredients because we are the sun people one that not good enough if we work all day we need our familiar food in and out when there is mostly meat over there in sweden. but with our extra and gradients it almost tastes like home we come back i have my it. they have big plans. each of them wants to earn 800000 baht just under $3000.00 euros per person. will the

season be good they don't know or care. will they find enough berries. they now have 2 months to do it. and we will try to meet up with them again in sweden. in this vast expanse more than $6000.00 times a year this year to pick the wild berries. first we try to find chang since we visited him in thailand we have kept in touch with him via social networks check and wrote to us that he should be in this syria about 3 hours' drive north of the congo. he sent us the name of the place and a photo of his accommodations. we find the building in the late afternoon but the

burly pic is still out. here. in the nearest town zuda ham is only one blueberry dealer maybe we'll find chang here. we asked the commission and we are allowed to film in the factory hall only time i saw tramper is here but there's no trace of chang. or axels on is the managing director for 2 years he's been relying almost exclusively on sees no thai workers more than $700.00 around in the woods. picking berries spoil him. time cut your hair when your golfing of course i also wonder why you have to fly people across half the globe but there are no others who want to collect berries

the few for the thais help each other they just work very well together in a group so badly that we europeans can't do it that way but all corn like beef but fed from the pier into your. property well. it's now evening the 1st because come back to deliver their harvest there's still no sign of china we haven't received a message to him in 3 days we don't know where he is. and then we spot a great bubble has suddenly he's standing in front of us. chang looks exhausted. and even now his working day is far from over. he still has to weigh his berries. he earns the equivalent of 2 years 20 per kilo picking berries is peace where. you have you know i'm tired very tired

i. am than a fat the so far we haven't found that many parents he was but a man it's not going so well made there are simply not enough troops to make up for the little bit on paper the workers are employees and are entitled to the minimum wage in real life they're paid by the kilogramme. very entrepreneur bowl ads also on its clients the principle tillis said $6065.00 he says his workers have no interest in the minimum wage because the kilogram price gives them the opportunity to and more and. that's why they're willing to work longer than 8 hours a day good answer question in return to your theme of all sometimes the times are in the forest for 10 hours but maybe they've been shopping or doing something else in between there but in addition they want to make more money in your country and i

can't stop them from working an hour extra because they want to earn a few crowns more they get it's very difficult for us to control that really it up . to get over the minimum wage of just under 2000 euros chang has to pick at least 36 kilograms every day today there are only $33.00. it's not a good day. the next morning starts early chang has been on his feet since 4 am then he drives up to 200 kilometers with his group. fuel food and accommodation costs him 25 euros a day in addition to the loan he took out in thailand. when they reached the forests they separate quickly in the next few hours they all

search for themselves chang is the beginning in his grave. well. it's a constant struggle one step forward one step back on some days when i pick up a lot i feel really good but then on other days when things aren't going so well i sometimes think what am i doing here but. this bucket is filling up slowly whether he finds many berries is a matter of luck. in addition many bushes were destroyed by haste in forest fires last summer. now. allow it to pass on whether i find a good spot right away then i can pick up a lot but if not i have to walk up to 10 kilometers constantly looking around

it's hard to protect. journalists much also makes his way streets swedish forests at harvest time. he's been reporting on the situation in the barrie industry for years he's worried the number of time barry collectors has grown again you see it is 6200. so many more than usual and at the same time there are only a few berries this year. that means there's a great risk that the times will not soon enough money and will barely reach the minimum wage. in fact many berry pickers may return to thailand. we learn from him that seasonal thai workers are even a tax saving model because they don't come from the e.u. swedish businesses don't have to pay income tax.

who show him the employment contracts of the times we have been filming. says the minimum wage they. i agree to is an improvement but the ties still have to deal with the loans they took out to come to sweden. we overcovered off. if you're here for 2 months you work one month just to pay off your debts and another month to be able to make money this was pretty optimistic because it takes most of them longer to pay off their debts but all of. chiang has been in sweden for 4 weeks and he's still paying off his loan the dream of big money gets a little smaller every day chang has a word with his wife telling her not to worry. hello. how are you. what are you doing now.

his daughter will also comes on the phone. she wants to know whether he's already collected many berries what do you ask quite a few i don't take any time off i'm working all the time you know. i get it i'll probably make less money than i expected. but if i come home with something that's fine my wife will understand it's my 1st time. he's driven by hope chang says he'll tell us how much money he'll finally be able to bring home in 6 weeks we'll keep in touch. as time in thailand we visit the village chief hereupon is something of a role model for many who travel to sweden every summer because he did it himself

with his profits he bought a tractor a car and soon found that. he and his wife and now working the fields again it's their own feet. away from me you have become pretty the other people in the village made so much money that they invested in a small business in the city and in what topped i car you although i now have to stand on the market and work there for. many just don't feel like working on the paddy field any moment i need done when they're there waiting to be able to pick berries again in sweden and all my old people go and i now let other people work in their fields or come to new quietly. seasonal work in sweden has brought money into the village but also a bit of envy because everyone here wants to live a better life they want to live like the village chief and his wife.

sweden's forests are a place of hope for thai very peak is for a better life for a way out of poverty. when now in northern sweden just below the arctic circle hi lynn and must be here somewhere they sent us the g.p.s. coordinates for meeting a parking lot somewhere in lapland. the next morning we have an appointment at 6 am in the ski area. even in july it's just 7 degrees celsius at this time of day the contrast with thailand could hardly be bigger. already got.

a. pilot and you don't tell us that they are more than 4 i was drive away from their accommodation. not that we have to sleep here somehow we have a tent for the 2 of us the others have to squeeze into the car at home and. i am tired but whenever i find berries things somehow keep going never mind one. they have to drive so far away because there are hardly any berries with this trying to make the long journey with while they sleep outside for one night and then spend another night in the camp. the weather is mr bill and whit bought a particularly red berry is said to grow here. from our car. if i want to know. we were quite far south yesterday but it wasn't worth it. we are

now working our way further north if necessary up to the norwegian border you know we. need them form and this is how i keep dry our. move i still don't know if this is a good area we'll have to walk around. first then we'll get a better idea in the forest. like every morning their day begins with them gone. along the road for a while and then into the wilderness. john does not want to rely on his phone or g.p.s. in this area every 100 manges the months the way that. point it's a constant struggle. conway when the day goes well and you collect

a lot of very stings look up one eye but on other days when things are not going well i ask myself why i'm here walk out of here borrow my time i'm on a map i'm going. to 2 of them a searching for the red cloud berry apia it looks like a yellow raspberry and only grows in the regions of scandinavia. they earn almost 11 euros for a kilogram. cailean has found a good sport now she has to be quick before the others come in their group everyone picks for themselves. from them who are out here i'm afraid of the white man spirits no not that's why i pray every night before i go to bed why me why does our everything has gone well his spirits of not nor have the wild animals but we're always on guard. by.

what matters is the day's field. despite the cold and rain. more good and will keep picking on child the very last day i will not do any laundry but we'll fly home and my work clothes we won't take a break any more but our boss also wants us to make enough money for you at rhino that the year. 2 months they searched the cloud berries. the result is sobering 2019 it was a bad idea after all the debts have been paid each of them had just and $1119.00 are as. you can one will be back in line with their money for. us we will come back again even if we earned less than last year it's still enough for us to pay the school fees for our daughter. what a sad face there's that final film we have. market town. at

the end of the day they returned to their accommodation a 4 minute hostile. the 2 do not give up their belief in the great opportunity in sweden maybe it will get better next year. and chang it was his 1st summer in sweden and he wasn't the fastest but his group divide the money for the berries evenly among themselves after 2 and a half months you work come home empty handed. after deducting all costs he earned 1300 euros. part i think of this year as something like my apprenticeship my 1st time on that and so a day. next year when i come back everything will be better. and there are all

already know the area the what they would have i know how to pick a lot of barriers that the new. if. you.

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