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I was coming and going
and coming and going.
I came here,
but before I went to Carolina, to Florida, to California.
We came from the other places and here is where we work.
Picking fruit.
Sometimes this three months
is the longest they are anywhere during the year.
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Let's go here and go here if they're hiring,
if they're hiring we can all go as a family.
Like we all stay together.
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In Mexico you do many jobs.
Mason, field hand.
The jobs were harder and they paid less.
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I came because my niece was going to be born.
My brother was here.
He was working on the roads and trimming trees.
I was 13 and I was here with my mom.
My sister and my brother-in-law, like,
they were good and they were stabilized and everything.
It was hard for my mom to have us
but not her.
I was almost eight months pregnant
and I was scared
because I had just moved and about to deliver my baby.
It's difficult when you come over,
when you don't know people and when you don't have anything.
Because I have gone through a time
when I didn't have anything.
Most of them don't know English so
that is a big barrier for them
to be able to communicate with people
because they don't know the language.
They stay in small groups.
Nobody knows they're there
except the growers, you know the people that hire them.
I believe most providers are ignorant
to how it really is for the migrant farmworkers,
but once you learn about what they're going through,
you tend to make adjustments.
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We have a worker or worker and family
in the fall for the apple and peach season.
Usually at that point they go either to Florida or Texas
to get themselves established
where they're going to be for citrus.
They may go back to Mexico
in the very cold weather or around Christmas
especially if they have kids in school,
they probably won't stay for very long in Mexico
maybe two or three weeks and then come back
and then start a northward progression
usually to Georgia, to do onions.
Some of them will split into different locations.
And those folks, those workers and families
will probably be in three to four different locations
in the United States.
It's a circuit of several different locations
and so it's not that they know
exactly where they're going to go.
Well I think family means everything.
And even through difficult times
we stay close like,
that's just who we are.
We're like a close family.
It's hard for us to be away.
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We do a lot of different jobs.
Mainly rural work.
In the fields, all the time I was in the fields.
From working in Florida I came here.
Someone invited me.
In Florida, all those sacks were full, heavy,
and all scratched up.
The trees had thorns, so I came here.
Trees here don't have thorns.
So I can pick more and get hurt less.
Less scratches and make more money.
I liked it and I continued year after year
and I met the other workers
and my bosses and I stayed and here I am.
Me and my two sisters, we work in the line.
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We work Monday through Friday is from
6:00 in the morning to 5:30
and on Saturdays it's from
6:00 in the morning till like 3:00 in the afternoon.
My two brother-in-laws,
they drive a tractor at the field.
And my husband, he's in the field walking.
I have been driving a truck for 10 years.
To drive it means to carry boxes, full of fruit,
take out empty boxes to workers as needed
and bring them in for packaging, full.
But before I started driving the truck
I used to work at the orchard,
to maintain the orchard.
Pruning, whatever they needed.
I would help them to pick peach
and then after the peaches there were apples.
Whatever required picking.
And then the harvest.
And then there was driving the tractor,
and then the truck
and when I finished with the truck
it was all over and we would start again.
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Their family for generations
have been farmworkers.
Most of them in Mexico,
that's what their great-great grandparents did,
they've all done outside farm work.
They're working when it's really hot.
They're working in October when it's starting to get cool,
down to 40 degrees in the daytime.
Heat is definitely a factor.
They're looking up into trees
into the sky into the sun
wearing a long sleeve shirt because
they're right up in the middle of them.
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Building trust with migratory people
and people who are in very rural settings
is important because often they don't know
where they are,
and they don't know how they're going to get somewhere,
they don't know who's going to help them.
So you want them to trust you,
but you have to get it going pretty fast.
We try to be there on the
day that we know the crew's coming.
Hosting some sort of gathering space
for people to come and learn about the resources
that are available to them.
Inherently there's a power dynamic
between us as social service providers and
people who are here in need of services.
And so I think anything that we can do to kind of
level the playing field a little bit more
helps us build connections and
helps them feel a lot of trust for us.
In the work that we do we'll sometimes bring providers
from some of the local clinics with us when we go out to the labor camps and
meet people and I think that helps with kind of initiating
that process of building trust and building
the awareness of how one can access healthcare
So if you're there with food and with things to welcome them,
I mean they're usually very happy to see people.
You see that starts to become a bond and then like
seeing guys year after year, it's like
not like just a person you normally see, it's more like
oh look, that's Suzanne or oh look, that's Kaylie.
I think as soon as you
open that window you interact with them.
Even that, "hola" you know there like,
well, she speaks my language,
she's someone I can talk to, she's someone I can communicate with.
It's always that reassurance to them to know that
they have someone that they can speak to.
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Interpreting in the clinic environment
it definitely goes both ways.
They have questions for the provider,
provider has questions for them,
and so just getting that information across to both parties
is definitely very important.
Having Yesseniau there,
the patient then becomes much more accepting
and that's why Yesseniau is so crucial
because she's part of their population, they trust her.
It goes a long way and it builds that trust.
It's the link that's so important for me to the patient.
Sometimes they come to us,
but a lot of times we go to the packing sheds.
We'll ask to see if anybody needs daycare for their children.
We try to provide not just the basic needs, but also,
we try to help the families to better themselves,
to do stuff that's gonna help them get a better life.
I don't see that in other places, and
I do think it's like really, really helpful.
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Well, for pickers, I think the biggest danger is falling.
If the basket's half-full or more,
they could have, you know, 60 to 80 pounds.
And they're up and down, up and down, up and down.
I think for the packing shed,
you're standing in the same position for a very long time
and you're doing the same repetitive motions
with your hands, with your wrists, with your elbow.
A pretty common issue that we run into
is an eye issue called Pterygium.
Your muscle starts to harden,
and so that requires eye surgery.
I myself am a Lion Club member.
So I went through the Lions Club
and asked for them for a donation for this gentlemen
and they picked up the bill for him to go in
and have his eyes corrected.
Either weekends or extended hours are crucial to the population
because getting off of work isn't like what
most of us are accustomed to
and then when they get in I can't do the typical dental appointment
which we call a limited exam or emergency exam
where I'll go in and tell them what's wrong and then usually it's,
we'll get you in next week.
Getting off of work is very difficult for them.
They're not allowed to leave and sometimes the hours they work,
they can't give them up.
So having that time when it's after work,
which would basically be that 6:00 to 6:30 range
is really important to them.
And especially with the migrant population,
once I learned what they go through
your ability to become empathetic and get more companionate to their cause
and then you find yourself really wanting to help even more.
So I always try and look at it through that lens, like what if I were this person,
knowing what I know now, it really changes your decisions
and I know they appreciate it.
If I go to the doctor I have to tell the boss.
I have to tell the person in charge a day ahead and the time.
It's a bit difficult because production is every day... the same.
So, the only thing I ask them is to make the appointment late,
so they can be with me at work and then go see the doctor.
Everything about their lives is uncertain.
So healthcare is a huge one.
If you have a physical heath issue, a chronic disease.
If you're doing something that needs any sort of consistency or repeat visits;
we see people with chronic diseases that arrive
who have been three, to four, to five months
without the medication for it.
They know what they have, they know what they need,
but they haven't been any place where they could access it.
And so those things that need consistent follow up
are really, really hard for people that are constantly on the move.
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Here, the people help me because you helped me.
And they treated me well.
To look for a doctor and to go to many appointments.
They scheduled the appointments with the doctor that does not charge a lot of money.
Because if you go somewhere else you will be paying more,
but with this program, they charge you less,
for medication and for appointments, for the dentist, the eye doctor, and the family clinic.
For me it is a good help what your program has given us,
medical care for your health has helped us a lot,
and of course childcare.
I think it is a good and safe place.
Your project had helped me with the school.
Your staff helped me to enroll my kids, also to translate
because I don's know English.
I think that the most important thing for people
who move and have kids is childcare.
because in order to be able to work you need care of your kids.
It's difficult when you come over,
when you don't know people and when you don't have anything.
We came over here because my husband
knows people and he knows your program
and we know people that will help us if we need it.
We know that this program will help us.
I feel good, I feel happy because of your support,
because when I come here I go see you and I'm thankful.
I rely on your help. I trust you and I know I have your help.
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