Class VIII English

CHILDREN AT WORK

Jayasri E KTGT English

Kendriya Vidyalaya Malappuram

A SOCIAL MENACE

Harvesting TeaA 9-year-old Nepali girl harvests tea in India. Child labor is traditional in some countries in South Asia.

According to estimates made by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations (UN) branch that specializes in labour matters, there are at least 250 million working children worldwide under the age of 15. Three-quarters of those young workers toil six or more days a week; 125 million children work nine hours or more each day. Over half the working children are in Asia, while in Africa 1 in 3 children work, and in Latin America, 1 in 5.

Young Labourers in South AsiaIn many countries, children endure hard physical labour and dangerous working conditions in factories and fields. Child labour is traditional in some countries in South Asia. Clockwise from left, a young girl crushes bricks with a hammer in Bangladesh; a Nepali girl harvests tea in India; and young children weave carpets in a factory in Nepal.

1.POPULATION EXPLOSION 2.POVERTY & EXPLOITATION3. 3 ILLITERACYOF PARENTS4. 4. HEALTH PROBLEMS OF PARENTS5. 5. PARENTS’ DEATH6. 6. FAMILY PROBLEMS7. 7.UNEMPLOYMENT OF PARENTS8. 8. PARENTS’ IGNORANCE ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE 9. OF EDUCATION

THE NUMBER OF CHILD LABORERS IS INCREASING

REASONS

CHILD LABOUR DOES NOT OCCUR SOLELY IN POOR NATIONS; EVEN IN RICH NATIONS THERE ARE EMPLOYERS READY TO EXPLOIT CHILDREN. IN CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS, MANY MEXICAN IMMIGRANT CHILDREN WORK AS FARM LABOURERS, AND IN MANY WEALTHY COUNTRIES, CHILDREN HAVE BEEN FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION.

WHY DO EMPLOYERS PREFER CHILD

LABOURERS?CHILDREN CAN BE EASILY EXPLOITEDPAID LESS THAN THE ADULTSDO NOT PROTEST AS THEY ARE WEAKDO NOT KNOW THEIR RIGHTSNO DEMAND OF AMPLE WAGESWORKING TIME MORENO FACILITIES TO BE PROVIDED

Poverty plays an enormous role in the phenomenon of child labor. Desperate for money, poor families around the world are forced to push even young children to work to increase the family's overall income. “For poor families the small contribution of a child's income or assistance at home that allows the parents to work can make the difference between hunger and a bare sufficiency,” according to the 1997 UNICEF report. A study of nine Latin American countries found that without the income of working children aged 13 to 17, the poverty rate would climb by 10 to 20 percent, the report found.

Many desperately poor parents pledge their children, sometimes as early as four years of age, to factory owners in exchange for modest loans, sometimes as small as $15. This practice is known as bonded labor and is, in effect, little different from slavery. No matter how hard they work, many children are unable to free themselves from bonded labor by repaying the underlying debt because the interest rate is often exorbitant and they are paid just pennies a day. In addition, factory owners often add financial penalties to the debt—for instance, when children make mistakes tying knots in a rug. And the debt is often handed down through the generations: Children are sometimes placed in bonded labor because their grandparents never repaid their debts.

BITTER TRUTH

DOES STUDYING

EXHAUST YOU?

IT DOESN’T EXHAUST

THEM!

DON´T YOU LIKE GREEN

VEGETABLES...?

THEY HAVE NO CHOICE!

ARE YOU ON DIET ALL THE

TIME...?

THEY WISH TO EAT...

THEY DON'T HAVE PARENTS!

DOES YOUR PARENTS’ SUPER PROTECTION

BOTHERS YOU?

ARE YOU BORED PLAYING THE SAME

GAMES...? THEY DON’T HAVE

ANY OPTION!!!

DID THEY BUY YOU ADIDAS, WHEN YOU WANTED

NIKE...?

THEY ONLY HAVE THIS BRAND!!!

ARE YOU UPSET THEY ORDERED YOU TO BED...?

THEY DON’T WANT TO

WAKE UP!!!

DON’T COMPLAIN...

YOU ARE LUCKY

IT HURTS OUR HEARTS WHEN WE SEE THEM

PLEASE HELP THEM!

LOOK AROUND YOU.. THANK GOD

FOR EVERYTHING THAT HE ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE IN

THIS BRIEF LIFE...

For more information on child labour you may please check the following websiteshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour_in_India

http://labour.nic.in/content/division/child-labour.php

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/keyword/child-labour

Jayasri