Child slavery
Child slavery
is awful. It should be banned. Did you know… most kids in the poor countries
don’t even go to school because they have to work to feed their family and pay
of their parent’s depts. When they work
they only get about 4 dollars a week for working 16 hours, and they roll about
10,000 smokes a day and if they mess
up 1 smoke they don’t get p1`aid
for that day
Did you know
that 250 million kids around the world are child slaves. Child slaves make 80% of your food. Nigeria has the highest count of child slaves
with over 40,000 slaves working every day.
Nigeria also has the worst conditions to work most kids get really bad
diseases and sometimes die just to feed their family. Child slaves work in big firework factories
with about 1,000 kids in each factory.
With kids aged between 5 and 15.
When your having the time of your life watching the pretty colours of
the fireworks there are kids out in the factories with burnt hands and arms
working day and night to make your life fun.
Craig
Kielburger a 12 year old Canadian boy
read a story about a boy who was working in a factory to pay of his parents dept.
and he ran away and he was telling
anyone that would listen about his story and later on in his life he was killed
by the boss of the factory and that inspired Craig to do something about child
slavery. He made up an organisation called
free the children and he is now over 20 and still working to ban child slavery.
You
at home can help by only buying products that have a fair trade label on it and
if you don’t know what the label looks like you can go on to the fair trade
website. If you don’t know what fair trade is it is a organization that helps
slaves that are getting paid very little and paying them a fair amount of
money.
So
next time you are out at the supermarket , sports shop or clothing shop look
out for the fair trade logo and don’t just look for a brand name that you have
brought before try out fair trade so we can help save the children from
slavery.
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