galilea montijo

With our stomachs full of breakfast, we climbed aboard the bus and headed out for the sugar plantation. Chris, our guide from Compassion‘s Dominican Republic office, prepared us for what we were about to see. The sugar plantation is run by a large U.S. corporation, he explained - himself having grown up in Brooklyn and still maintaining dual citizenship. The workers are paid $2 a day when they’re harvesting, he said, which isn’t all year. They once worked all year, before all but one mill

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