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Thanks to your generosity, the Fair Food Program has met its ambitious 2024 campaign goal of raising $2 million!
The program’s unprecedented success since its launch in 2010 is a testament to the extraordinary passion and commitment of our community, and we are deeply grateful to all who contributed their time, effort, and resources over the past 15 years to make that success possible. Thanks to you, tens of thousands of farmworkers are empowered to be the frontline monitors of their own rights, and countless more workers will soon gain that power.
Our shared belief in the importance of building a global food supply chain free from extreme abuse — abuses ranging from gender-based violence to modern-day slavery — made it possible for us to reach our fundraising goal in 2024. But as we have shared over the past year in the pages of this website, the work of protecting fundamental human rights is not limited to agricultural fields here in the US. It is a global job, and news of the success of the Fair Food Program is ringing out today in workplaces around the globe, from sweatshops in Bangladesh and Lesotho to fishing trawlers in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, animating workers in those far-flung places to travel to Immokalee to learn how to adapt and build the Fair Food Program in their own workplaces.
Indeed, recognized as the new gold standard for protecting human rights in global supply chains in the 21st century, the FFP has become a beacon of hope for low-wage workers around the US and the rest of the world.
As a result, the CIW’s story — your story, our story — has become an all-too-rare human rights success story that is capturing the imagination of millions of workers around the globe and driving the expansion of our work at an exponential rate. Most recently workers in India’s sugar cane fields — where the New York Times has chronicled truly outrageous abuses, including widespread debt bondage and forced hysterectomies for an estimated 100,000 women farmworkers [[link removed]] — have traveled to Immokalee to learn how workers can shift power relations in the workplace to protect their own basic human rights and labor protections in the fields.
Far too many workers who toil at the bottom of these supply chains remain vulnerable to egregious violations of their human rights including wage theft, harassment, gender-based violence, and even modern-day slavery. That’s why a dream born in Immokalee’s tomato fields is today a dream shared by millions of workers in the garment industry, fisheries, dairy, vineyards, and more.
One farm, one crop, one industry at a time, together we will stop these abuses and bring about a new day for millions of low-wage workers.
Onward to 2025, and a bright future for human rights!
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