Ritu from Nepal, posing for a photograph with her two children at her Nepalese restaurant in Sao Teotonio, Odemira. — AFP
IN Sao Teotonio, a small country town in southwest Portugal, there are more Indian and Nepalese restaurants than Portuguese ones.
Which makes sense when you discover South Asian workers keep the fruit farms that are the mainstay of the region going.
Uh-oh! Daily quota reached.
A fresh start
Asian immigrants workers waiting for the bus in Sao Teotonio, Odemira. — AFP
Greenhouses are an important agricultural area, particularly for the production of soft fruit under glass. When spring arrives, thousands of seasonal workers, mostly from India and Nepal, come to work here. — AFP
An Asian immigrant worker waits for the bus in a greenhouses area in the background in Sao Teotonio, Odemira, in January.
Asian immigrants gather at the end of the day at a square in Sao Teotonio.
Children of immigrant parents attending a Portuguese class, as part of the Taipa Association’s ST-E8G Project in Sao Teotonio, Odemira. — AFP
A group of Asian immigrants sit on a bench in Sao Teotonio, an important agricultural area in Portugal.
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