Improving Mexican farmworker conditions

Women scrub their laundry on rubble in an irrigation canal at the Campo Isabelita farm labor camp.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Farmworkers purchase items on credit at a labor camp store. Most complain that the prices are double the cost of things in a local market.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

A resident of Campo Isabel sits near burning embers that he hopes will keep the mosquitos away. There’s no air conditioning or windows in his tiny, corrugated-metal room.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Toilet paper litters an outdoor latrine next to Campo Isabelita in Costa Rica, Sinaloa, Mexico. Filthy, non-functioning bathrooms inside the camp force people to relieve themselves outdoors.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Rusty corrugated-metal siding separates the 40 small rooms in a long building at Campo San Jose. Concrete beds have no mattresses.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Women walk hard-packed dirt paths between long dormitories built from corrugated sheets of metal in Campo San Jose in Villa Benito Juarez, Sinaloa, Mexico.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Migrant farmworker Pasqual Garcia and his family stop during their walk home from bathing in an irrigation canal in Villa Benito Juarez, Sinaloa, Mexico.   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)