What Do you Know?

What does Child labor mean?

Does Child labor exist today?

Which continent do you think has

the largest percentage of Child Labor?

A Child labor ..
Is under the age of 5 and 14
receives extremely little

or no pay. has no education or health care. Is controlled by violence.

Basic Facts..
One in every six children aged 5 to 17 worldwide is exploited by child labor.
Child labor is an estimated 211 million children On an average 22,000 children lose their lives every year from accidents at the workplace.

A Life

Wei Qui and Ma Pinghui, both 16-year-old Chinese girls, were daughters of farm families in China and were unskilled peasants. One day, they saw an advertisement for a job opportunity to make false eyelashes in the city of Anshan. The advertisement promised salaries of $120 US per month. The ad was sponsored by the Labor Bureau of Huairen County. The girls decided to accept the job offer. When they reached the factory where they were to work, however, they discovered that the contract they were to sign offered $24 US per month, as well as a $13 US room-and-board fee. In order to leave before the contract was over, they would need to pay a $58 US fee to the factory boss. Conditions of the factory were no better, and the girls worked 14-hour shifts making intricate patterns with human hair to create the eyelashes. It was impossible to meet the quotas which were necessary for bonuses, so their pay rate remained the same.

Where It Occurs..

Latin America and Caribbean

17 Million

Africa 80 Million

Asia
153 million

Effects On Children.
Health: child labor are easily replaced, it is more

expensive to nurse a sick child than to buy a new child. Education : child labor are often denied to education so if they escape, they do not have the skills necessary for higher-paying jobs. Family: child labor are separated from their families so if these children escape, their families still may not welcome them home.

What can you do..

Educate yourself about Child labor.
Contact local, state, and other for support against Child labor. Talk to your parents about Child Labor.

For more Information

UNICEF

Global

March www.unic www.global ef.org march.org

 http://listverse.com/2009/07/06/top-10-terrible-

issues-facing-children-worldwide/
http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child

_labor/about/causes.html
http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/chil

d_labour.aspx
http://www.coc-runder-

tisch.de/news/news_mai_2005/child_labour.pdf