if you're watching dw news after the break of profile of a migrant worker from cameron, who now campaigns for agricultural workers rights in italy, x watch the can you see what old cars tires have to do with the production? here's a hands on the real media. watch now on youtube. the seasonal migrant workers in italy. most of them harvest fruits and vegetables, destined for elsewhere in europe. they earn

a pittance defense. some people could make $2500.00 a year because he was like 2 months us one or 2 months, we talked to gas to see don't wait to cost from maybe 0. can you opposite? can you go to a former total performer to literally have to go to court? easier for do are you also calculated $3000.00 maybe highs? nobody compressed 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 than both of them. it's. i don't a near the city of georgia. 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. um is this is like uh, dental use. my plan was i use booking cooking for, for, for us. okay. this is for you. right. right. i could be since yesterday you know what i'm trying to reach and i'm trying to put some use for the sometimes i

want to do something i don't even need to because by saying easy to do with it every day, the money would be enough. do one of the enough, that's why we, we have to is if we did for, for these 5, these are the, can you get the big surprise the before when he spoke with the one can see the recommendation here is, is low with enough because many awards maybe have, you know, they expect to have a place like the value come from a new find. another place that is not present the 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 know, 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 gun. yeah. ok. i came to maybe i didn't talk to, maybe i can be sad. but my proposal for me to tell somebody to so to me we need we have a life. that's why we buy me. of 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 are 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. accompanying house who in the fields would be a risk for everyone. there is nothing was here and once you start what they will take 30 to walk, i literally work locally the no no pay you want it. so you you have to what kind of you, how many, what can you do? you don't know where he's stay right? you can order close anyway, i've no power to go and look for you. so you're welcome you for the one new front of the place. because when you walk within the 20 days or what i'm not 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 laborers. 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 fields of puleo and southern italy himself. he experienced expectations firsthand and organized a 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 ones. oh, there we go. so let's go this way. gomez, w the schools out there was do you have a minute? i think the heart of no cannot even look up. may not even i'm on. i'm sorry you back. sorry about society the ones where are you from the machine a fast. oh, do you not ugly anymore? romania, romania, the king of paso ma lane is saying i got santa go gambia instead of outside of international montana is on sale like that. and that's who dollar but i think i'm

a we're a family. yeah, 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 what goes wrong. that's not what authority bed k a bought it . they won't say they're all producers who are like mikaela, montana, martinos as in and also to exploit the way. cuz okay, and don't give them a contract with authority. 95, they even if they do know funding, they pay badly fund or contract both on the contract. the one on 500 banning mckayla montana 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 people who most share us, you know, even safe and sound. yes, yes, we met during the potato hobbies and how are you?

how's your family? because you know, took that off of my family's good. i think the lord, i think the lord and how are you doing doing well it'll control. yeah. we just checking how many hours you work a day like they will. 7 will jordan no. not 20. right? say they said this is not a not 20 because some do 10. 1213 so no, no, no, no, no. uh okay. the week. wow. no 7. it's fine. okay. okay. boosted god pace. now due to the stuff i do today, i always to pay slips in december. it was about miss queen, stacy yvon. 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, and can we do that? okay, if i can help, i will your brother to your friend gimme

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 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 $1500.00 migrants and secure proper employment contracts the same. so i mean, it keeps my life meaning when i was kind of happy level, a little bit of interest because i trying to make out that people have a qualitative features. 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 and the cleaning we need to give happen is to the people

around us, sort of the private leader and professionally and it, but certainly good to keep going down to setup with the the, the stop would be about the prophy. so 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 wanted 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 puleo because he wanted to earn some extra money. so the level of 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 locked or system. in 2017, he was awarded the border of merit of the italian republic and encouragement to try 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 about niema has been working at a strawberry farm since last year. she picks up her fellow workers at the train station in advance of 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 . 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 2nd. so here i guess 1101150

. i got to the phase when i come to, if i don't make any sense, sometimes have 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 the 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 entirely free from this. like i said, this is only yeah, unless it's like, if i the cleaning elvia, i just want

a job and everyone wanted to know are you running green is best for the sex on the i lost 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 with my mother? she's still from me and i'll let him back here. sorry something that will, which doesn't look. i love to see the land there so beautiful day. gina nima is treated well michela montela strawberry farm, but his farm is an exception. most field worker's labor in terrible conditions. there are debts every year, from sheet on the fields, or an 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 in 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 on owning 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 we normally caught it. well, what today? that is what water. so of for now. yeah. so 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've got 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 the now on 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 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 was 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 tolerated in 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 suddenly 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 email. 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 the god bless you on the good in these 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. thank to move profile. can you take a picture of me, take a photo of me, the priest and the computer that i really up on the computer a muscle product to talk to the thought a lot. it's about making it easier to access the internet so they can send emails. good make photocopies and k crystal and lucky if they need to make a copy of that residents upon may. so id con, which i mean, and then they have to travel to a phone jack, which is far away, but not for john k monitor on town with 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 on owning

yvonne sun. yay! is visiting a branch of a larger tell egon supermarket chain there. a limit 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, but no capital the below the that all i'm so move don't i cut you off the top cap on our lot to hook up with a lot of these, you know kind of got to give 80 percent to. so i think i'm so regional produced in collaboration with no cap, no cap, it'd be to cannick and it's that they're 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 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 it. 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 the veterans? the support of the supermarket change is very important. and so these are, it allows for an ethical supply chain and helps improve conditions for the workers and also have the company out in the ceiling level. it's all the question of the 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 an inhumane conditions. fairly produced goods are still meach 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 as well. so let me just see something that's been over. i said, if you know it's panels and i get under joy. yeah. so now it makes me very happy. i'm very touch it a see a few years ago. i couldn't to imagine 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 teeth and then discussed finally doing it so gratifying to have achieved this results. a cleaning. it will not be less of this, that seal, and i big kitchen because 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 go go some authority. i think we'd be able to find a lot of boxes. 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. and there is no minimum wage in italy. but let's see what our end of the minimum wage could definitely give worker's stability. somebody thought it would at least provide them with a secure monthly income on the just the side sell out of the distribute on know when you mesa 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 to conditions, why we will i hit with some different cause of difficulty of housing where to find houses and then you know, the, that's the problem because if you go a new policy somewhere, they will not like to read to. they would say no, we don't know one block, this is a rental, our house and some of the stuff with 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 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, a feel 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, is going 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 case and setup is without migrants, italian agriculture would 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 accommodation in the, the up with you, but it looks like the government isn't interested. a very low would have thought expensive on a deep sleep. deep dive. in particular, at a standstill. right now things are going defined quite just bear with me. that goes and say 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

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