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There is year-round work for him on Guadalupe Zajú if he wants it—and he does. One thing Rodas, who has a wife and daughter, particularly likes is the housing. “Families have their own section, and single men are in a different area. The bathrooms are divided, too: There are eight for women and nine for men,” he said. “In contrast, on other farms, men and women are not separate, and sometimes there aren’t showers at all—you have to go to creeks or rivers to wash. I’ve seen it!” He added, “And on farms like that, you work harder for less money. They exploit you. Here, they pay us what the law requires.” Education Mexican woman smiling Nely Morales Zunún When Nely Morales Zunún’s husband died and left her with four small children to support, she had no choice but to leave her home in Tacaná, Guatemala, to seek work in Chiapas. Once she found employment at Guadalupe Zajú, she sent for her three youngest children, in part because she saw that they could attend school right here on the farm, on a schedule that coincided with her work hours—a boon to any working mom.
Her oldest son, a teenager, opted to stay with his grandmother and friends back in Tacaná, but Morales hopes he’ll come to Guadalupe Zajú when he’s ready to work. But, she added, “he can’t until he’s 18 because they don’t hire minors here.” Food Mexican man smiling Walter Eulícer Pascual Ramírez Walter Eulícer Pascual Ramírez jokes that he comes to Laguna Prime to get some rest. At home in El Quetzal, San Marcos, work is so scarce that he must wake up at 3 am to catch the bus to the nearest possible job, whereas here at Laguna Prime BYB Directory he rolls out of bed at a relatively leisurely 5 am. While he misses his family back home (“My children are my happiness, my reason for everything I do,” he said), he is comfortable at Laguna Prime. He is paid on a fixed schedule, and he has the afternoon free to play soccer, call his family, or hang out in his room, which he doesn’t have to share with any coworkers. The cafeteria, he said, provides tasty meals, too.
How do they compare to his wife’s cooking? He laughed. “No comment.” Preventing child labor Two Guatemalan migrant workers, man and wife Daisy Marilú Verduo Gutiérrez and César Emilio de León Daisy Marilú Verduo Gutiérrez, mom of two, grew up helping her parents on their subsistence farm in San Marcos, but she had no experience on coffee estates until she came here to Laguna Prime. Field managers here taught her the skills she needed to work in the plant nursery and the field, and even put her in charge of reporting any instances of child labor she might see during the harvest. “Sometimes (older teens) want to go to the field with their parents, but they can’t unless they’re 18,” she said. Verduo and her husband César Emilio de León work here for a few months out of the year. When they return home, they need to make their earnings stretch until their next season at Laguna Prime, because, according to de León, “Guatemala is beautiful, but there’s not much work there, unfortunately.
Her oldest son, a teenager, opted to stay with his grandmother and friends back in Tacaná, but Morales hopes he’ll come to Guadalupe Zajú when he’s ready to work. But, she added, “he can’t until he’s 18 because they don’t hire minors here.” Food Mexican man smiling Walter Eulícer Pascual Ramírez Walter Eulícer Pascual Ramírez jokes that he comes to Laguna Prime to get some rest. At home in El Quetzal, San Marcos, work is so scarce that he must wake up at 3 am to catch the bus to the nearest possible job, whereas here at Laguna Prime BYB Directory he rolls out of bed at a relatively leisurely 5 am. While he misses his family back home (“My children are my happiness, my reason for everything I do,” he said), he is comfortable at Laguna Prime. He is paid on a fixed schedule, and he has the afternoon free to play soccer, call his family, or hang out in his room, which he doesn’t have to share with any coworkers. The cafeteria, he said, provides tasty meals, too.
How do they compare to his wife’s cooking? He laughed. “No comment.” Preventing child labor Two Guatemalan migrant workers, man and wife Daisy Marilú Verduo Gutiérrez and César Emilio de León Daisy Marilú Verduo Gutiérrez, mom of two, grew up helping her parents on their subsistence farm in San Marcos, but she had no experience on coffee estates until she came here to Laguna Prime. Field managers here taught her the skills she needed to work in the plant nursery and the field, and even put her in charge of reporting any instances of child labor she might see during the harvest. “Sometimes (older teens) want to go to the field with their parents, but they can’t unless they’re 18,” she said. Verduo and her husband César Emilio de León work here for a few months out of the year. When they return home, they need to make their earnings stretch until their next season at Laguna Prime, because, according to de León, “Guatemala is beautiful, but there’s not much work there, unfortunately.