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Give health training to 20 flower workers
Price: £5
In Colombia, the fresh-cut flower industry provides work for 90,000 people. Workers are forced to labour in terrible conditions with minimal health and safety conditions and unionisation is actively discouraged amidst a climate of fear. Contracts are not renewed if workers become ill, pregnant, or attempt to form a union.
This photograph will be enclosed in the gift pack. Click image for full size. What's more, carcinogenic pesticides are used in the vast greenhouses where the workers grow, cut, and package the flowers for shipping to European and North American markets. Often the workers are not provided with vital safety equipment such as masks and gloves. Cactus, War on Want's partner, provides the workers with health workshops to highlight the dangers of their workplace. Through education of the risks to their safety, they can work to minimise the hazardous effects. And this knowledge not only benefits those in the class, but it will be disseminated to colleagues throughout the factories, vastly improving the lives of workers. Just £5 could train twenty workers in health and safety through an eight-day course.
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