The Importance Of Working On A Farm

Task 1.b) (Picture on page 275) I have been working on this farm for five summers now. It is hot here, even though we are in the southern part of Africa, as long from the Equator in this direction. It is often around 35 degrees Celsius here, and no part of the fields has any shadows. We have minimal with drinks and food here, so sometimes people eat the tomatoes. The reason I work here is because my mother is sick. She does not get the medical support she needs, simply because we can’t pay for it. I would rather like t not to be this way, but since my father died in a work accident seven years ago, it has been gradually getting worse. I have three brothers, and one sister. All of them are younger than me, but my brothers and I work all year …show more content…
If I don’t work hard enough or fast enough, they take money away from the check. Somedays, I’m not even get paid, even though I work all day, as good as I can. We are sleeping in the barn by the farm house, in some hay. We have a room on about 10 square meters, so it’s very tight between us. I don’t like it, but I have to get some money for my mother, and since I only see her in the weekends, it kind of hard to know if she is safe and well during the week. I hope my sister gets accepted to school next year, but then I have to work even harder to pay for it. We will see. Two of my brother’s work on a farm a couple of kilometers away, so sometimes the bring me a piece of bread in the evening, because they get better treated then I do. Which is good for them, and for me I guess, because they make more money than me, so that we can afford more food when the weekend comes. My last brother works in the city. I don’t really know what he is doing, but he won’t tell me either. He often comes home with marks all over his …show more content…
The last weeks we have had a lot of accidents on a part of the site we are currently working on, and I’m walking around ones in a while, to ask the workers what they think is wrong with the site, and what we in the leading group should do to improve their safety and keep them happy. Last week, I made every worker on the part of the site that we have had all of the accidents on write something they are unhappy with on a piece of paper, and made them hang them on the outer wall of the building, so I could go over it with my supervisor and find out if there actually was anything we could improve. One guy wrote that his co-workers always end up coming late for work, both when they start up in the morning, and when they go out to get lunch. He can’t do all of the jobs on his own, sometimes he can, but he still gets frustrated with the situation, since it happens so often. This means that he takes his mind off the work he is supposed to be doing, and loses concentration. On a site as big as this, it is difficult to follow up on everything that is wrong, but this is something to grab a hold on, and get rid of as soon as possible, because they aren’t allowed to sneak away from work like that, and it is bad to make such a bad work environment. I’m going to talk to the guys that this is about, and if they don’t show up when they are going to, I will have to fire them. We can’t pay people