The Facts

Farmworkers are at risk of wage theft, abuse, sexual harassment, and bad working conditions. We ignore the dehumanization that the farmworkers behind the produce face. Farmworker children are equally affected but invisible due to their inability to speak out. Severe problems, such as lack of education, affect this vulnerable population during their formative years. They work in unsafe conditions in fields when they should be in classrooms. An estimated 400,000 - 500,000 children are affected in this manner. Farmworkers’ children are less likely (1 out of 5000) to graduate from high school, and postsecondary education is practically non-existent. Please read the stories of farmworkers and farmworker children.

The children in the fields | Students on the Move | APM Reports

[https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/14/the-children-in-the-fields].