just as the mafia controls in many fields, his ambition is to free the west coast from the mafia stranglehold. yvonne sonya snow stopped the next on d w, the the seasonal migrant workers in italy. most of them harvest fruits and vegetables destined for elsewhere in europe. they earn a pittance then some people could make 2500 a year because he was like 2 months us, one or 2 months, we'd have to have to see them rate. because from maybe 0 can you up as it can? are you looking for more to the, to leave the facility or something concrete also maybe highs that nobody can post.

thousands of these migrants live in shantytown square. there is no electricity, no running water and no toilets. the in mid april, it's emptier than usual in both of them. it's a known name near the city of full. jeff. this is one of italy's largest informal settlements. how suca salma is a migrant worker. there's not much to harvest and poorly at this time of year. there's been a lot of rain in the last few days, so work in the surrounding fields has ground to

a halt to pass the time cows who is visiting a neighbor who lives a few shacks away. he's my friend, i come to visit my friend. i really appreciate it from you. so this is like a window use my plan was i use cooking cooking for the full force. ok. this is for you. right? right. i put this into your study. i'm trying to reach and i'm trying to put something useful for the sometimes i want you to do something i don't even need to because by saying easy to do it every day, the money would be enough to one of the end of that's why we, we have to is so if we did for, for these 5, these are the, can you get the biggest price

what we do $1.00 can see that condition here is low with enough because many voice maybe have, you know, they expect you to have a place like these coming from a new find another place that gets enough with the on the house who has recognized refugee status and is allowed to work in italy. but seasonal work as a farm hand is all he's ever been able to find. i want to get to live. that's why i'm he came to you because i the life i'm leaving by cool. these last session to leave the. so that's why we call i come to your house who is 29 and has been in europe for 12 years. he was 17 when he was rescued, trying to cross the mediterranean in a small boat. the

i'm from guy. ok. i came to maybe i didn't talk to me be. i can be said my proposal for me to tell somebody to sell it to me. we need bit of life. that's why we buy the italy's agricultural sector relies on migrant workers like him. they come from africa, india and pakistan. and once here fall victim to what's known as the agro mafia, the italian trade union, c, g i l, estimates that around 400000 people are exploited or illegally employed in agriculture across the country. the mafia has infiltrated the industry. couple in ali, our mafioso who act as middleman between farmers and labors. they keep

a close eye on the workers and make sure they produce as much as possible. a company in house to in the fields would be a risk for everyone. if you want to use that one, they will take 30 to work. i literally work locally. the no one will pay you $1.00 . so you'll have to what kind of you when he meets, what can you do? you don't know where he's stay. why do you come to the coast anyway? i've no power to go and look for you. so you're welcome you for the one the front of the place. because when you walk within the 20 days or more on that later, she will not tell you, no, no, i'm going to pay what i need. this exploitation of field workers in italy has been happening for over a century. in the past, the mafia exploited italian labors. now the victims are migrants who were unable to defend themselves. but there are people who are fighting on their behalf. the

yvonne suddenly once worked in the field of puleo in southern italy himself. he experienced exploitation firsthand and organized the protest. today he campaigns for fair wages and decent working conditions in the agricultural sector. in 2011, he found that an organization that obliges producers to pay farm workers fair wages . it's called no cap. as in no cap, what ali sonya is visiting a strawberry farm that works with the organization around 150 people. work on this 150 hector farm. and when you're naples for 7, euro, and $0.98 per hour, they have health insurance, producer mikaela, montela complies with the sectors wage agreement. enjoy the,

let's go this way. gomez, w. the schools out there was do you have a minute? all right, have you heard of? no, cannot even look up. may not even button. i'm sorry about, sorry about society. but where are you from? virginia? fast. i'm looking up the book, romania, romania, the king of paso ma lane is saying i got synagogue gambia instead of outside of international montana is on there like that. and that's who dollar brought together . we're a family. that's right, that's good. administrative, i know you're from last year. hi. good morning. i'm doing great level the i'm open to the week. i'm paying for what goes wrong. is that what i've already been k a bought them on say they're all producers who aren't like mikaela, montana, martinos as in and also to exploit the way. cuz okay, and don't give them a contract with authority, 95. and even if they do know funding,

they pay babbling funding on to that the funding contract. the amount on final banning mikaela montela is one of your biggest producers of organic strawberries. many of the fruit pickers come back here every year to work for him in the harvest season. the high alley. so right is that most of the morning will be the most share us, you know, even safe and sound. yes, yes, we met during the potato hottest. and how are you? how's your family policy? i was not with the family is good. i think the lord, i think the lord and how are you doing well? little control. yeah, we just checking how many hours you work a day like they will 7 know 20 right. say day 7, this is not a not 20 because some do 10. 1213 so no, no, no, no, no. uh okay. wow. no 7, it's fine. okay. okay. mostly god paisley due to

the post office. not to do, i always gotta pay slips in my do simpler was about man. we want yvonne sonya exchanges telephone numbers with several of the workers and tells them to contact him if they have any problems in normally what's your full name about uh about a 100 component. oh okay. do we do that? okay. if i can help, i will need your brother to your friend and give me a call. we'll help you if you need a lawyer. lemme see if i have a problem with my documents. i'll contact you about a lawyer. what is wrong? so okay, and then we have a lawyer. i use the car to 20 agricultural companies have joined the no cap network since 2019 yvon. sonya has

helped around 1500 migrants and secure proper employment contracts the same so it keeps my life meaning when i walk i'm happy level a little bit of interest because i trying to make out that people have a qualitative cd too. so when i see that happy it gives meaning to my existence, i'm gonna be quick about that. i mean, otherwise, life wouldn't be worth living now. the bidding gives the living only for yourself makes no sense in the cleaning we need to give happen is to the people around us, sort of the private leader and professionally allow that. but certainly good to keep going down to setup with the the, the stop with the motto people yvonne sonya is on a mission to put a stop to the exploitation of workers in italy's agricultural sector. but he never planned to be an activist. he originally want it to be an engineer.

sunjay was born in cameron room in 1985. he came to whitley on a scholarship in 2007 to study. in the summer of 2011, he worked in the tomato field, the pool area because he wanted to earn some extra money. go to some level the working conditions with terrible on one particular day i exploded with angus and that's how the strength began. he convinced thousands of harvest workers to stop working, there was an outbreak challenge to the mafia which is sort of identity. so we were threatened with guns knives faced and more cautious. sonya sparked a debate about the agro mafia that paved the way for laws that criminalize the capital lactose system. in 2017,

he was awarded the border of merit of the italian republic and encouragement, and we made in 2018 the no cap organization that pushed for fair working conditions in agriculture was still in its infancy lot has happened since then. today, no cap is an established network and a brand the the gina niema has been working at a strawberry farm since last year. she picks up her fellow workers at the train station in events, a small town near naples. the many bus service is free. that's

not something that can be taken for granted. most field workers in southern italy have to pay out of their own pocket to get to work. the black market bosses use the shuttle service as a way of cutting the workers wages. the gina avo niema drives a mini bus provided by eve on sundays organization. when it's harvest season in southern italy, 20 no cap buses take $350.00 people to work free of charge every day. the tina and her team pack strawberries that grow and michela montela fields into plastic trays. they're destined for major supermarket chains in germany, denmark and other countries in europe. the organic strawberries

are about 30 percent more expensive than ones produced on other farms where workers are exploited. of the shift is 7 hours long, including a one hour break. no cap of regularly checks that the working hours are adhered to . move on low cost at noon on this flight. so that's why everybody most comes to know. everybody must know i button ok. so that's not the slice it in this section. so here i guess once has on 100, all 1150. i got to the phase when i come to, if i don't make any sense, sometimes i'm nissan because i have to with her other jobs, she earns about 800 euros a month. but often works longer shifts than she does here.

they don't get pastries like these anywhere else either it feels like it's like even working for me, tell us what she was like uh and finally she worked for mikaela montela for 3 months, but after the harvest he won't have any more work for her. the migrant workers are used to having to scramble from job to job i am not free from this. like i said, this is only yeah, unless it's like, if i the cleaning, i'll be as close as 5 before the job. so let's say 10 everyone. wanted to know, are you running green is best for the sex on the i lost funding my grand prairie and the way from so one day maybe one day when i go back to my conference, i will try to make a farm. is it flashing it?

well, my mother, she's still a for me and i'll let him back here. sorry something that will, which doesn't look. love to see the land there. it's a beautiful day. gina avo niema is treated well one michela montela strawberry farm . but his farm is an exception. most field workers, labor in terrible conditions. there are debts every year, from sheet on the fields or in accidents with overloaded trucks. the notorious both of them, it's a known islam grew up on the runway of a disused airport. fires have broken out here and this sprawling chaotic shanty town people have died in april. that's emptier than usual. many of the people who live here and have moved to calabria for the orange harvest. the mafia even makes money from both of them. it's a known name,

building houses and renting them out to workers. cows to kazama is one of the few skilled laborers here. he's good at bricklaying plumbing and repairing roofs, but he can't conjure water out of nowhere. seed as low as a. yeah. this is how we normally cut it. well, what today? that is what water. so for now? yeah, for now you cannot do anything. so that's what, what the problem twice a week and 8 organization fills the tanks with drinking water. but it's not enough . if anyone arrives too late, they get nothing. i seem like obstacles because i forgot one. so you some how or what the problems are you off many problems like what's in that 12 people need good life want to change. that's why i made people

today because then i will i'm good life because of some of the. it seems like these . the slums 1st emerged some 20 years ago. a collection of make shift shacks of cardboard and plastic. these days there are also buildings erected by the mafia where residents have to pay rent of about $50.00 euro a month for a home without a toilet. they have no choice, but to use the surrounding fields. it's very difficult. it has the best, the best on life, live without toilet because every day, while you're doing the drinking water, you need to come out, diagnose yourself. so if you don't have to do that, it's not good at all. of ensuring access to water and sanitation for all is one of the goals of the united nations agenda 2030 toilets on our recognized human rights that has been ignored by the authorities in southern italy for years. the state

tolerates the humane conditions the official refugee camp and forward. yeah. which has a water supply in sanitary facilities is located right next to the slums where some 5000 people live during the tomato harvest the but it's not just the toilets that are lacking. the residence of both of them, it's unknown. they are also cut off from the internet. yvonne sunjay believes free access to the internet is crucial. in the slums church. he's meeting up with a man who shares his face and approves of his mission. son, he hopes to persuade pastor charles to support his plan for an internet cafe inside the church. i hope that multi point one percent. you may,

if you want to send e mail, you come to the same email, like internet affairs on it, that you don't going to full job to do but anything, but you have a need to you. this is the project. ok. split, very simple. and i, i really thank you all for the big god bless you and the good thing is your business and then my to name of jesus christ. thank you. i mean, i mean i am very, i'll be assessed. i'm ready. ok, thank you. both of them can you take a picture of me, take a photo of me, the priest and the computer that i, i really i'm calling to complete the a muscle product to talk best buy to the thought a lot. it's about making it easier to access the internet,

so they can send emails to make photocopies that kick was to and if they need to make a copy of that, residents upon, they don't id con, which i mean, and then they have to travel to the phone jack, which is far away, but not for john k monitor on town or the queen the fold you is the provincial capital of a pool. yeah. it's around 20 kilometers west of both of them. it's not only yvonne sonya is visiting a branch of a large italian supermarket chain there the limits in 2019 the organization teamed up with producers to sell fresh vegetables and tomato posada certified with a no cap logo. wow. id spell crazy. i used to look up the know cancel the, the, the,

that all of them. so move to 9 2nd because you all set all top cats are allowed to put a lot of. there's no cap cop to it. 80 percent. so i think i'm so regional produced in collaboration with no cap, no cap, it'd be to cannick and it's at that going to go wow. no cap products or around a 3rd more expensive then conventionally produced products. their own prominent display in the store, things to the manager to move on. sonya it has known for years. 7 director, how's it going to store most customers appreciate the products because of the quality and the social aspect of we live in a region where the problem is deeply rooted. oh,

i see. so some people welcome the initiative. they're very open to buying. no cap goods is it most of the key spots of sunset available is the support of the super monkey change is very important one. so these, it allows for an ethical supply chain and helps improve conditions for the workers and also have the company out in the field level. it's all the question of a price, right? any price that's at the end, right? so now i see around $300000.00 no cap cans and bottles of tomato posada are sold every year. a. this is a fraction of the more than 6000000 tons of 10 tomatoes produced in italy every year. mostly an inhumane conditions. fairly produced goods are still nice products in this supermarket, which heavily promotes the no cap products 2 out of 10 customers choose them.

i used to have you seen the stop capital alonzo product support. all the see. there's only so that's fennel, right. that if you know it's panels and i get under joy. yeah. so now it makes me very happy. i'm very touch it. and so you got a few years ago, i couldn't to imagine that our products would be on the shelves of a launch supermarket. i don't need my g novel just sort of presenting that quote and that e mail super adult teeth. they discussed finally to me. it's gratifying to have achieved the test results, a cleaning. it will not be lost with dyslexia and i big kitchen cause i didn't go, could i focus the company is distributors and consumers all have to play that part on it. it goes to my goal, goes to my boy. i think we'd be able to find a lot of positive yeah,

8 out of 10 customers still decide against no cap products. basically allowing the exploitation of workers to continue, even if they don't realize that, that there is no minimum wage in italy. unless you go to the minimum wage could definitely give work or stability subsidies. it would at least provide them with a secure monthly income on the just that side. so a lot of the distribute, i know you mentioned most e u countries have a minimum wage in germany. it was also a wage dumping in the agricultural sector that prompted politicians to introduce legislation. field workers like how to cut some would benefit greatly from a minimum wage. right now he has another problem in order to extend his residence permit. he needs a permanent address. that's what the, what do you mean these police want to go and speak inside the don't know to what do

to conditions. why would be, will i hit with some difficult, difficult to do of housing where to find houses and then you know, the, that's the problem because if you go a new policy somewhere they would not like to read to you. they would say no, we don't. one block, this is a rental, our husband from the south, one, the a decent kind of slavery. what i said we are leaving here. so we have to be, you have to will be what since hit the condition need. if you have to, obviously, because you want to money. so here's the one you want to do. it, that's what it is. it kind of slaves. of course, instead of close to the, the government in rome is aware that there is widespread exploitation in the agricultural sector. in 2016,

a new law tackling forms of severe labor exploitation in agriculture was introduced in part thanks to yvonne sunjay. he now lives in rome with his wife and 2 children . he feels safer here than in the south. his apartment is also his workplace. from here, he continues to campaign for the rights of migrant workers. he says the country needs to understand their contribution to italy quickly. so what i would have to get it up is done to these people that helping boost the economy. the fund moves that they're working for. it's really not just for themselves funding that if it gets inside of it without migrants italian agriculture, i wouldn't be in trouble to get it so that you know, so it's the duty of the states to respond to the needs of the seasonal workers and across the country to provide them with accommodations in the the apple used,

but it looks like the government isn't interested, we're very low. what i thought is that too deep dive. yeah. and we're at a standstill. that right now things are going defined quite just for me that goes beyond sonya wants to put an end to criminal exploitation of migrants. he's planning to launch no cap in spain, portugal and greece, where workers are also faced with in humane conditions that he experienced himself and will never forget the respect. it's all about walking waves and texting nature. that's

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