Season of Sacrifice

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This is a link to the project Season of Sacrifice that I worked on for the last 8 months. This is a story about seasonal workers who come to Lynchburg, Va. for eight months out of the year to work legally and send money back to their families in Mexico. They then go home for four months out of the year. The owner of the company that brings these men to the United States wanted to build the men townhouses to live in while they were here. He wanted to build on his property that happen to be across the street from a school in Forest. When word of this hit the public people reacted with a surprising amount of hatred toward the mexican workers. They called the townhomes dorms and the school principle wrote a letter to the board of supervisors saying that is would be dangerouse for students. In the end the board voted to reject the request. While there is no solid proof that this is why the board voted against the request it is pretty much acknowledged that it was a completely racist vote.

Working with these men was a great expierence for me. Their lives are hard and is something that I don't know if I could endore. I have profound respect for their determination to take care of their families and with the modesty in which they do it. To them this is how life is and so they accept it. I will never forget these men and can't wait to see them again in March. Click on the link above to see the slideshow that sums up the story.