just as the moscow controls in many fields, his ambition is to free the west coast from the mafia stranglehold. yvonne sonya snow stopped 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 can make 2500 a year because he was like 2 months us, one or 2 months, we'd have to have to sit on wait. because from maybe 0 can you off? is it, can we book a portal for the to coordinate the for delivery or something concrete? does that mean the highest that is nobody to thousands of these

migraines 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 as ground to a halt,

to pass the time cows who is visiting a neighbor who lives a few shacks away. is my friend. i come to visit my friend. i really appreciate it from you. so this is like a eventful 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 some use for the sometimes i want you to do something. i don't even need to be close by saying you said you need to have it in the money would be enough to one of the enough. that's why we, we have to cook it. so if we did for, for these 5, these are the, can you provide me

with the one can see the recognition here is low with enough because many voice maybe have, you know, they expect you to have a place like these come from a new find another place that gets enough with these none of 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 it to live. that's why i'm he came to you because i mean the life i'm leaving, bob cool. easily efficient 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 and a small boat. the

i'm from guy. ok. i came to maybe i didn't talk to maybe i can be said a lot of my proposal for me to tell somebody to. so to me we need bit of life. that's why we're by we 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 are around 400000 people are exploited, or a legally 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. accompanying house, who in the fields would be a risk for everyone. mazda is that the warranty? is that what they would take teddy to walk? i literally walk, walk a little noon. okay. you want to you, you have to what can you, how can i be? what can you do? you don't know where he's stay righty. you kind of goes anyway, i've no power to go and look for you. so you are for me, for the one who funded a place. because when you work within the 20 days or more than that, literacy will not tell you, no, i'm no, i'm going to pay. what can you do? 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 and all of that. yeah. so let's go this way.

the comments value the schools out there was do you have a minute? i think you've heard of no cannot even look up like even i'm sorry about sorry about society. the ones where are you from the thoughts of 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 the stand 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 all paid a week. i'm paying for workers, right. is that what i've already been k a bought them on say they're all producers who aren't like michela, montana, martinos as in and also to exploit the way. cuz okay, and don't give them a contract with a 3095. and even if they do know funding,

they pay babbling funding, or going to that the funding contract amount on final banning mikaela montela is $1.00 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? oh the most yeah. you guys you know even safe and sound. yes, yes, we met during the potato hottest and how are you? how's your family? because you know, took that off of my family is good. i think the lord 5, the thank the lord and how are you doing doing well little control. yeah, we just checking how many hours you work a day like they will 7 know 20 right. say they said this is a non they not 20 because some do 10. 1213 so no, no, no, no, no. uh okay. wow. no 7, it's fine. okay. okay. mostly paisley due to

the post office. i do today, i always to pay slips in december. i was promised 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, it's about them, phone at all. okay, do we do that? okay, if i can help i well, 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 the wrong so okay, and then we have a lawyer. i use the car to 20 agriculture, will companies have joined the no cap network? what 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 well for 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 like this. only good to keep going down to setup would to be the stop would be about 2 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 italy on a scholarship in 2007 to study. in the summer of 2011, he worked in the tomato field puleo because he wanted to earn some extra money. go to the same 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 idea. so you know, 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 criminalized the capital, locked, or system. in 2017,

he was awarded the border of merit of the italian republic and encouragement to me 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 tina above nima has been working at a strawberry farm since last year. she picks up her fellow workers at the train station and events on 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 nima 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 low cost and will not be as low as it. that's why everybody most comes to know. everybody must know about no cost, so that's not the slice it in this section. so here i guess 1100, all 1150. i got to the phase when i come to us, 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 ever working for me, tell us what feels like uh, a family. she'll work for mckayla 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 on this. like i said, this is only yeah, unless i smoke. 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 set. so the last part of the way from so one day may be or day when i go back to my conference, i will try to make

a form. is it flashing it with my mother and she's still for me and i'll let him back here. so i something that will which doesn't look love to see the land in there. it's a beautiful day gina of nima is treated well. i'm 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 an accidents with overloaded trucks. the notorious board of them, it's a known islam grew up on the runway of a disused airport. fires have broken out here in this sprawling chaotic shanty town . people have died in april. it'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 caught it. what the, what today. that is little water. so of 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 see seem like obstacle because i forgot one. so you somehow or what's up problems you off many problems like what's uh yeah that 12 people need good life to change. that's why many people today

because they know i'm good life because of some of the, it seems like this. the slum 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 is very difficult. it is the best, the best phone life live without doing that because every day you, while you're doing, you, i drink and want that 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 inhumane conditions the official refugee camp and forward. yeah. which has a water supply m 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 residents of board of governments, i know 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 st. e math. liking to admit that you don't going to full job to to but anything but you have a need to you. this is the project. ok. split. very simple. i. i really thank you all for the the god bless you on regarding these your business and then my team name of jesus christ. thank you. thank you. i mean, i mean, i'm very up, be assessed. i'm ready. ok. thank you. let me pull it up. can you take a picture of me, take a photo of me, the priest and the computer that i really i'm going to complete the a muscle product to the best buy to the thought a lot. it's about making it easier to access the internet so they can send emails

good, make photocopies that kick was to and if they need to make a copy of that residents upon, they don't id con. and then they have to travel to a phone jack, which is far away, but not for john k monitor on town or the queen, the full g a is the provincial capital of apple. yeah. it's around 20 kilometers west of both of them. it's on only yvonne sunjay 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 capital the, the, the,

that all of them. so move to 9 2nd because you all set all top capital are allowed to put a lot of there's no cap got to 80 percent. so i think i'm so regional produced in collaboration with no cap, no cap, it to be told cannick and it's ethically to go about no cap products or around a 3rd more expensive then conventionally produced products. their own prominent display in the store, things to the manager who move on. sonya has known for years. 7 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. and then most of the key spots 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 level. it's all in a question of a price, right? any price, that's the model, 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 in engine main 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

ivy. so have you seen this stop capital alonzo product support. all the see. there's only for that spend. all right, so you know it's panels and i get out and enjoy. yeah. so now it makes me very happy. i'm very touch it. and so you got a few years ago i couldn't have imagined that i'll products will be on the shelves of a launch supermarket. i don't need my g novel. just sort of presenting that quote and email super adult to natalie scott finally to me for it. so gratifying to have achieved the test results the queen and will not be less with dyslexia, and i big catch of what goes on eco, could i have to consider the company is distributors and consumers all have to play that part on it. it goes to my goal, goes to my thoughts. 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. but let's see what our end of the minimum wage could definitely give work or stability. somebody thought it would at least provide them with a secure monthly income on the just that side. so a lot of good just to be on know, and you mentioned most d 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 uh, would benefit greatly from a minimum wage. right now he has another problem. in order to extend his residents permit, he needs a permanent address. that's what the, what do you mean these police want to go and stay inside the don't know to what do

the conditions why we will, i hit with some difficult, difficult to do of housing. where to find houses and then you know, the, that's the problem that because if you go and look for houses where they will not like to read to you, i would say no, we don't one block. this is a rental. our house and some of the stuff, one of the you say kind of slavery what i said we are leaving here. so we have to be, you have to will be what since you hit the condition needed, you have to obviously because you want the money to use the one giving was 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 suddenly 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. totally get it up as a to these people that helping boost the economy. the fund moves that they're working for. it's really not just for themselves, funding for the thought, if it gets in setup is without migrants, italian agriculture, i wouldn't be in trouble to get 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 accommodation in the,

the couple years. but it looks like the government isn't interested in i would have thought is better than a deep sleep. deep dive in particular at a standstill. that right now things are going defined quite display for me that goes to yvonne. 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 china war. it was one of the bloodiest chapters in french,

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