2.

CHILD LABOUR A SOCIAL MENACE

3. She is happy SHE IS HAPPY
4. But she is not happy Harvesting Tea A 9-year-old Nepali girl harvests tea in India. Child
labor is traditional in some countries in South Asia.
5. 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.
6. Young Labourers in South Asia In 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.
7. 1.POPULATION EXPLOSION 2.POVERTY & EXPLOITATION 3 ILLITERACYOF
PARENTS 4. HEALTH PROBLEMS OF PARENTS 5. PARENTS’ DEATH 6. FAMILY
PROBLEMS 7.UNEMPLOYMENT OF PARENTS 8. PARENTS’ IGNORANCE ABOUT
THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION THE NUMBER OF CHILD LABORERS IS
INCREASING REASONS
8. 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.
9. WHY DO EMPLOYERS PREFER CHILD LABOURERS? • CHILDREN CAN BE EASILY
EXPLOITED • PAID LESS THAN THE ADULTS • DO NOT PROTEST AS THEY ARE
WEAK • DO NOT KNOW THEIR RIGHTS • NO DEMAND OF AMPLE WAGES •
WORKING TIME MORE • NO FACILITIES TO BE PROVIDED
11. 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.
13. 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.
14. BITTER TRUTH
15. DOES STUDYING EXHAUST YOU? IT DOESN’T EXHAUST THEM!
16. DON´T YOU LIKE GREEN VEGETABLES...? THEY HAVE NO CHOICE!
17. ARE YOU ON DIET ALL THE TIME...? THEY WISH TO EAT...
18. THEY DON'T HAVE PARENTS! DOES YOUR PARENTS’ SUPER PROTECTION
BOTHERS YOU?
19. ARE YOU BORED PLAYING THE SAME GAMES...? THEY DON’T HAVE ANY
OPTION!!!
20. THEY ONLY HAVE THIS BRAND!!! DID THEY BUY YOU ADIDAS, WHEN YOU
WANTED NIKE...?
21. ARE YOU UPSET THEY ORDERED YOU TO BED...? THEY DON’T WANT TO WAKE
UP!!!
22. DON’T COMPLAIN... YOU ARE LUCKY
23. IT HURTS OUR HEARTS WHEN WE SEE THEM PLEASE HELP THEM!
24. LOOK AROUND YOU.. THANK GOD FOR EVERYTHING THAT HE ALLOWS YOU TO
HAVE IN THIS BRIEF LIFE...
25. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Child_labour_in_India http://labour.nic.in/content/division/child-labour.php For more
information on child labour you may please check the following websites
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/keyword/child-labour