Culiacan, Sinaloa – By the end of January, the company Agricola Belher, a member of our Veggies from Mexico community, started the Harvesting Workers Rights Workshop, carried out in collaboration with World Vision Mexico. This workshop aims to train 100% of the company’s employees on the workers’ rights of workers with a workshop of 5 modules divided into 15 sessions.

Harvesting Workers’ Rights is a three-year project funded by the ESDC (Employment and Social Development Canada) Labor Program, which seeks to foster collaboration, partnership, and alliances to address labor issues. It pursues to improve capacities to effectively implement and enforce local labor laws, improve working conditions, and eliminate unfair treatment.

“World Vision Mexico is proud that the Harvesting Workers Rights project is framed to promote the Workers’ Rights of day laborers and their families,” said Javier Ruiz, General Director of World Vision Mexico, and Spain.

The project uses a tripartite, multi-stakeholder approach and promotes labor rights. It collaborates with three target audiences: agricultural workers, especially women, teenagers, and migrants; employers in the tomato, eggplant, and cucumber fields; and government agencies in Sinaloa and Jalisco.

World Vision Mexico, is an international organization that has been one of the main promoters of the protection of children, adolescents, and young people living in vulnerable situations in the world and Mexico.

Among the main tasks to be developed with this institution, which has more than 40 years of experience in Mexico, are different diagnoses to detect factors that cause school dropout, and teenage pregnancy, among others, and thus implement government actions to prevent them.

The member companies of the Veggies from Mexico community have always been characterized, not only for complying with the Workers’ Rights of their employees but also for exceeding them by offering housing, electricity, gas, daycare, and school transportation, among other facilities for their employees and children.

World Vision is a global humanitarian aid organization that has been operating for more than 70 years in Africa, America, Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East; it has been working for 40 years in Mexico, with national and international recognition, transforming the living conditions and increasing the opportunities for a better future of children, adolescents and young people who live in situations of greater vulnerability in the country.

It is the leading institution in the protection of children, adolescents, and young people living in situations of greater vulnerability in Mexico.