- You get depressed.
This is human trafficking, in fact.
A family I spoke to yesterday had left their three children at home.
They are at most 30 years old and go here to earn some money and then nothing happens.
Abandoned in a parking lot
Susanne Karlsson says that people have simply been abandoned.
They have paid to come here but right now they live in a parking lot without proper stuff and food.
They also have no money and the cars they traveled here with are banned from driving, which means that they can not go out and pick berries.
"At least seven years old"
Susanne has her cottage in the area and decided to help the berry pickers.
She has fired in the summer cottage's copper cauldron so that they have hot water to shower in because the cottage has no electricity.
And she has provided them with food and warm clothes.
On social media, she wrote an attention-grabbing post which stated, among other things: “Today there have been 25 Bulgarians of all ages, the youngest was probably seven years old.
Grateful, quiet, humble, kind, hungry and frozen. ”
- I got an incredible response when I wrote about this on social media.
Many have left clothes that I handed out.
I have also received some money so I could buy food for them.
Susanne has also contacted the Bulgarian embassy that their citizens outside Älvsbyn are in need.
"No new problem"
She thinks it is good that the situation of the berry pickers is noticed, but that something must be done.
- One should somehow access this because it is not a new problem.
SVT Norrbotten has tried to reach the berry pickers' clients, but without success. Hear Susanne Karlsson tell more about the situation in the video above.