During the summer of 1995, the National Labor Committee, arranged to have two young maquiladora workers—Judith Viera, an 18-year-old former employee at Mandarin, and Claudia Molina, a 17-year-old former employee at Orion Apparel, a Korean-owned maquiladora in Choloma, Honduras—spend 59 days crisscrossing the United States and Canada, visiting over 20 cities to criticize the Gap and other companies at press conferences and public meetings arranged by the National Labor Committee