// About Slave Labor

he International Labor Organization (ILO) has estimated that 250 million school age children are forced to work work ( ages 5 to 17) , and they work in condition that no American adult would, for 12 to 16 hours a day, and for only a few cents a day. 171 million of these children are engaged in hazardous work, such as mining or handling chemicals, which is otherwise described as the “worst forms of child labor”. Poverty is the seed-bed of child labor. Poor parents send their children to work for reasons of economic expediency, the consequent denial of education setting in motion a mutually reinforcing cycle liable to pass down the generations. It is nevertheless over simplistic to attribute the problem solely to poverty, the real cause is greed, greedy corporations that want windfall profits, and Americans consumers who want to pay less and less, while enjoying the highest income in the world.

Whole generations of children are being deprived of the chance to take their rightful place in the society.

Child labor is Everyones Problem

When you look at the whole picture, you realize that child labor is not a simple issue. The whole picture shows that forcing children out of work without providing the necessary support mechanisms can cause greater hardship than it solves. Child labor is a symptom of poverty and it is poverty which must be defeated No family sends their child to work for fun