Child Labour

Child Labour

What do you think when the word child labour is mentioned? Word that connected to child labour such as working, children, hard work, no education, missing school, no play, away from family, kidnapped, hurting, lonely, slaves and abused. There are some indescribable words that I can’t say.

What is child Labour?

Many families are taking their children out of school and sending them to work. In the recent decades millions of children are being used as slaves.There is an estimate of 215 child labourers around the world, about 114 million are in Asia, 14 million in the Pacific, 7% live in Latin America and 30% live in sub- Saharan Africa.

Where do they work?

Do you know who picks the bananas you eat or who cuts the flowers that you gave your mother for mother's day, the yummy chocolates you eat, and the soft jacket and clothes we wear? Do you appreciate the fruits and vegetable you have? Well, you might be surprised, a child did that. The International labour organisation thinks that 215 million children between the ages of 5 to 17 are working underaged in an explosive and dangerouse places. About 60% of child labourers are involved in hunting, mining,  fishing, agriculture and forestry. Most bananas come from Ecuador, cotton from Egypt and Benin, flowers are cut in Columbia, Oranges are picked in Brazil, cocoa from Ivory coast, tea from Argentina and Bangladesh, and the daily fruits and vegetables from the United States.  

What is the cause of child labour?

Families are extremely poor and men are greedy and want money. They trick the children to work for them and they say they will pay them but they don’t. So they employ children but don’t pay them. Poor families make their children work, even if it's only 10 cents a week. So this means children are putting all their hard work into this but not getting anything in return. Is this fair? Is this right?

This is not fair for children, children should not work. They are missing out in learning in school that will affect them when they're older. Without education they can’t get a good job and raise their own family. Don’t you think they should just be kids who play, go to school and able to have fun.  

References:

https://propelsteps.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/child-labour-5.jpg

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

http://www.english-online.at/society/child-labour/where-children-work.gif

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https://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/what_is_child_labor.html

Please comment down below, What do you think of Child Labour? I would love to hear your thoughts.

By Mikayla