In Spain, migrants are saving sheep farms by taking over shepherding

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In Spain, migrants are saving sheep farms by taking over shepherding  In Spain's rural areas, sheep farms are having a hard time finding employees willing to herd the animals. To fill that gap and also find work for recent migrants, a government program is training recently arrived migrants, many from African countries, to become shepherds.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/10/26/in-spain-migrants-are-saving-sheep-farms-by-taking-over-shepherding  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00This flock of sheep is Ossam's new job.

00:05The young man is originally from Sudan,

00:09but after migrating to Spain he needed to find work and was lucky.

00:14Through a government program he managed to train to become a shepherd

00:18and is now employed on a farm in a small village in central Spain.

00:23There is a lot of work for shepherds in Spain,

00:30but people don't like to work in the countryside.

00:33I just want to be working. This was the quickest job I could get.

00:41Migrants like Ossam are a silver lining for many Spanish farmers

00:45who are facing a critical shortage of workers on their farms.

00:50It's difficult to find people who work in the countryside.

00:54Most of the businesses that exist right now won't have successes

00:57because the children don't want to follow in their parents' footsteps.

01:00So we have to look for those people elsewhere, often outside the country.

01:04There are many people who come seeking opportunities to improve the situation

01:08and here what we ultimately do is give them that opportunity.

01:14The Shepherding Training Course for Migrants is funded by the regional government

01:18and has existed since 2022.

01:23I'm doing training course about animals, cows, sheep, ghosts,

01:30and I will be very glad to work in a camp with animals.

01:37For five days, migrants learned the basics of working with animals

01:47before doing a practice day on a farm.

01:50If they are allowed to work in Spain, they can then get matched with a farmer

01:54and start their new lives as shepherds.

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