Immokalees Fields of Hope is a story of Mexican Haitian and Guatemalanimmigrants told by a businesswoman who regained her soul through volunteeringwith children... » 

Immokalees Fields of Hope is a story of Mexican Haitian and Guatemalanimmigrants told by a businesswoman who regained her soul through volunteeringwith children. With compassion and understanding Carlene Thissen shares thepersonal stories the immigrants told her framed with the political and socialhistories of their countries. Beginning with family memories of her own Germanand Irish grandparents she captures the struggles hopes and dreams of peoplewho just want to work and make a better life. Carlene offers the opportunity tostretch out and truly visualize the plights of the people being described andtheir motivation for coming to America. They left horrible poverty violenceand persecution and risked everything they had to come to Immokalee inSouthwest Florida as word spread across our borders that There is work inImmokalee. More than just the vivid story of the immigrants Carlene explainsthe frustrations and fears of the rural community that struggled to absorb themand the dedicated people who came to help. The immigrants dreams of a betterlife and the Carlenes own journey back to the garden all began in ImmokaleesFields of Hope. «