Child LaborThe Invisible Crisis

What is Child Labour?

Child labour is an invisible crisis , meaning that it is everywhere. Do you remember those cheap socks that you purchased from Walmart? A child in India probably made them, but received horrid treatment and was paid $0.13 to manufacture the item.

Child Labour is a child substituting an adult for work. Usually, an adult gets a higher pay,(because they might demand one),the adult has an education, and can stand up for themselves if necessary. But employers found shortcuts by hiring children for a lower pay, scamming them because they cannot figure the situation out because they do not have an education, and the employers can be mean to the children because they are too weak to stand up for themselves.

Where is Child Labor?

Unfortunately ,Child labor is in more than 190 countries, Here are only a few, such as …

-China -Western Africa -Asia And India, but mainly in progressing countries

How Does Child Labour Affect the Community it’s in?

Child labour affects it’s community by taking its children to work and harm them. But also leaving the parents wondering; Where are they ? [ if kidnapped ] Are they okay? Will they come home?

Sadly these are questions that no parent should ask.

What is the impact on the Region and Global community? The impact that we take from child labour has many negative impacts that affect us as well. Here are a few… Not receiving quality items etc; The item ripping Causing you to spend more money if the item breaks The item fading.

This also affects their region for having multiple families that live in poverty.

But also, when a child works in a factory that imports the item, the money that the object costs, it doesn’t go back to the country to help the country to become richer, it goes to the business owner.

Child in Chocolate [a Child Labour industry]

Chocolate is made with the one and only cacao bean, which grows in tropical countries like Western Africa and Ghana, but mostly children harvest it .

Western Africa and Ghana make up of 70% of our world’s cacao beans , So children are put to work to farm the cacao. The farm makes it very secretive that the use of children still continues in their industry.

One of the worst problems in child labour are the low earnings. Most of the children receive the worst forms of child labor while working. Because the cacao industry demands cheap cacao, the children get an earning of 2$ a day.

Iqubals’ Story [In Iraq] When Iqubal was 2, his father abandoned their family, leaving his mother with a house cleaning job, which was not enough to support Iqubal on a single income.

When Iqubal was 4, he was sold for 16$ into a bonded carpet industry. Iqubal was forced to work for 6 years until a local labour rights group helped him escape the factory. Iqubal was put in a freed child labourers school . He started to learn more about child labour and began inform other children about a law that made Child Laboring Illegal . Many other children began to flee their industry/factory.

When Iqubal turned 12, he went to Sweden and the U.S to speak against Child Laboring. But when he returned to Iraq, he was shot and killed .

Child Labour Facts The are an estimated amount of 27 million slaves in

our world that were sold into a industry Globally, 1 in 6 children work in hazardous

conditions. And Often come across beatings ,humiliation and inappropriate violence from their employers.

Also, child trafficking is often common . Child trafficking is when Children are taken away from their homes/family to work in a certain industry. Not to mention, Most of them are sold to the company, kidnapped ,chained/forced to work. This harms the children to an extent of death.

When Child Labour took place

In the 1700’s and in the 1750’s, Machinery replaced quality hand manufactured items

A lot of children worked in factories. A child with a factory occupation would work about 12 to 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, to earn a single dollar.

Many children who worked in a factory developed an illness due to harsh conditions like ; Darkness, Dampness and dirtiness. Plus ,the children working were under the age of 7.

By 1810, 2 million children worked 50-70 hours a week. But ,most children came from poor family's to earn more money

Problems Due to Child Labour

Some of the problems due to child labour are… Harming the children; mentally, socially , physically

and be deprived from a good childhood. Child labour affects their education by; not being

able to attend school ,wanting to leave to work more and requiring them to make a choice of work or education.

How Effective Have Humans Been at addressing this Issue? Humans have done an okay job at addressing this

issue because for a long period of time, there were no laws against child labouring. Now there are multiple laws addressing the issue, that child labour is illegal.

If humans were doing a great job , Child labour would be non-exsistaint.

Project Mala[a hope for humans] Project mala is a donation/sponsor sight providing

children with hope to … Take them out of factories and into schools. The

program allows you to donate school supplies to them .

You can give them fresh drinking water and seeds to plant food .

You can give them health care and vaccines to prevent certain diseases .

On the page [ project mala website] it has multiple children to choose to sponsor. It also has a name, picture and a description about them.

How can we help shut down the company? If the product comes from a progressing country , it

is most likely that a child has manufactured the product. Don’t buy it . By choosing to not purchase the product, you aren’t supporting the industry, forcing the company owner to shut down the company and free the children working in it.

Websites I used

http://www.projectmala.org.uk/gb/?gclid=CNTNzrClpcMCFQwaaQodUFwAsw

http://nochildforsale.ca/http://nochildforsale.ca/http://nochildforsale.ca/

http://www.ilo.org/global/standards/lang--en/index.htm

Iqubals story chapter book

https://www.google.ca/search?q=clipartchildlabour&safe=active&gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=yrTTVPnZKZDGsQTTpILwAw#safe=active&q=clipart+child+labour&spell=1