According to this article, the boy who was 6 years old forced to get up at around 5 am to go work. In the morning were chilling, the boy-Mark had to paddle a canoe a mile out of shore. And, he bailed water out of the canoe while co-worker picked up a fishing net after 5 hours. Mark was very hungry and haven't eaten since the day before. He was tired but the powerful built man, Kwadwo Takyi will beat Mark and co-workers up if they were not working or being lazy. However, the little boy, Mark weight 30 pounds and wore some old and poor clothes. he had hard time to understand why he has to work but there are other 3 older boys know why they have to work because it is the way it is in reality life. they only earn 20 dollar for a year. They have to work for other 3 or 4 years and forced to work for around 14 hours a day, seven days a week. For Mr. Takyi's boys, they stuck in a miniature labor camp, not going to school, basic necessities and rare of freedom are part of traffic in children.
" The International Labor Organization, a United Nations agency, estimates that 1.2 million are sold into servitude every eyar in an illicit trade that gerates as much as $10 billion annually" (Cozay, 2009). "Studies show they are most vulnerable in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Africa's children, the world's poorest, account for roughly 1/6 of the trade, according to the labor organization. Data is disgracefully limited, but it suggests vicimization of African children on a huge scale" (Cozay, 2009).
This brief article just broke my heart. Because I can't imagine to see any younger children are under 6 years old and forced to work with heavy chores. However, I believe that 6 years old can do chores to learn their responability but not kind of labor they did. I already mentioned that children are important to have their education on other blog. Also, I don't believe that 6 years old children need to get kind of tolerate to punish them and allow them to have a gratification childhood.
This thing got to be STOP! it is so cruel to force the little children to labor.
Source: http://cozay.com/ONE-WORLD.php
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I agree with your opinion that it is cruel to punish these children. They get up early and work hard without food. I don't think these children are lazy, they just don't have the energy due to lack of food.
ReplyDeleteI think it is unfair that these children have to work so many hours for low pay. I do not even agree with giving chores to children, except for little things like keep your room cleaned. Children need to enjoy their childhood, they should have that right before the real world.
I agree, there is a line where children's age should be before they work long hours. In your article I see the boy was forced to get up and work, that is horrifying, to know that he cannot get up on his own time and play if he wants too. It affects the boy's health because he needs to have proper sleep time!
ReplyDeleteYour summary is excellent and I can see how this issue impacts you.
I agree with you that I want all children in Africa to learn an education instead of child labor. Education will make them succeed and have a better life in the future.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I don't like to see Mark to feel hurt and stressed out that he did work too long hours and was very hungry. Being hungry could make him a bad headache. It is not really healthy. I think the government in African needs to give the children less hours of work. The children can go to school during the day and go to work for about 3 hours or so. They need to have good experiences for going to school and then work. Why don't the government in Africa respect and support the rights of children instead of no rights of children? I am wondering why didn't Mark try to be courageous to face the rights of children himself?
This entry breaks my heart too, it is sad to know that children out there are suffering so much when we have life easier than any of them do.
ReplyDeleteI believe that children should never be forced to work, what's the point of being a child if you're going to miss your childhood. You'll grow up to become an adult and work someday, in twenty years. Let the children have their fun, let them be free and let them at least have a taste of what being a kid is like.
It is really sad how parents there would just simply support the idea of their child working only so they can support them since poverty is a big issue over there. If only we had a way to end poverty, if we did, child labor could end too.