David Bacon Stories & Photographs
Philippines
Children in the Banana Trees

09 Collecting rejects
San Jose de Campostela, Mindanao
A thirteen-year old boy collects rejected bananas in the packing shed. Children work on this plantation because the wages their families receive as farmworkers are too low to support them.

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