Seventeen-year-old Musa M. has a history of child labor and has been sewing clothes for years. He describes the impact of the long working hours on his health: “When I was in Iran I worked as a tailor and in Turkey as well. The doctor said I should change the job because I’m sitting for many hours without moving…. If I work too much I have pain in my kidneys…. If I work hard I feel a lot of pain. Then I take medicine.”263 The orange harvest takes place during the winter months, in the cold and rainy season. Children who harvested oranges told us they had to start their work day as early as 4 a.m., in freezing temperatures, and the oranges they collected were covered in frost. Children did not have sufficiently warm clothing. Some fell ill as a result from working in such conditions. Sixteen-year-old Hafez S. said: “In the morning the trees were full of ice; we made a fire in the plantation; after a few minutes [of harvesting] we went back to the fire to warm our hands; we didn’t have warm clothes.”264 An adult, Yusuf K., recalled how workers who harvested oranges in Arta, among them children aged 14 and 15, fell ill: “It was very hard and very cold. At 4am there was frost and we had to put our hands under our armpits to warm them.… When we went to work without water we were compelled to eat oranges. These oranges were frozen so people got sick. Some people also forgot to bring water and one bottle was finished very quickly and then they had no more water.”265 Children who work on construction sites risk damage to their health from working unprotected under the sun. Fourteen-year-old Wali P. compared his work on construction to work in a greenhouse: “It’s better to work in a greenhouse…. It’s hot in the greenhouse but work outside is almost always under the sun.”266 Arif L. told us how he got sick after working unprotected under the sun: “One day I got sick. On that day I worked to carry bricks up to the third floor. When I got home suddenly my nose 263 Human Rights Watch interview with Musa M., Athens, May 28, 2008. 264 Human Rights Watch interview with Hafez S., Volos, June 11, 2008. 265 Human Rights Watch interview with Yusuf K., Athens, May 23, 2008. 266 Human Rights Watch interview with Wali P., Athens, May 27, 2008. Left to Survive 80