“Alms … Alms… spare me your money, spare me a piece of bread, spare me your mercy I am a child so young, so thin and so ragged.”
Do you hear what I hear???
As we travel on this so called life, problems get broader and broader and our existence gets more complicated. As we all know there’s such obscure problem that our country has.
Dr. Jose Rizal said “The youth is the hope of our Motherland,” but how can we prove it if some are still misery? One of those is the Child Labor.
What is Child Labor?
According to Wikipedia, child labor refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labor. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organization and is illegal in many countries. Child labor was employed to varying extents through most of history, but entered public dispute with the advent of universal schooling, with changes in working conditions during the industrial revolution, and with the emergence of the concepts of workers' and children's rights. Child Labor Public Education Project defines child labors as a work that harms children or keeps them from attending school. Around the world and in the U. S., growing gaps between rich and poor in recent decades have forced millions of young children out of school and into work. The International Labor Organization estimates that 215 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 currently work under conditions that are considered illegal, hazardous, or extremely exploitative. Underage children work at all sorts of jobs around the world, usually because they and their families are extremely poor. Large numbers of children work in commercial agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, mining, and domestic service. Some children work in illicit activities like the drug trade and prostitution or other traumatic activities such as serving as soldiers.
In behalf, a child living on their own is an unbelievable but for now because of this unstopped poverty and hunger, child laborers are everywhere. There’s such unconditional worst form of child labor.
Child Prostitute
Millions of children are engaged on this work. In any circumstances, it is said to be undesirable because it is considered a forced labor.
2. Domestic Service
Many children especially girls are involved on this kind of labor. Sometimes the child that is being involved has an unwanted experience; maybe it is physical, emotional abuse.
It’s just a two of the most terrible forms of child labor. In this reality world, daydreaming is not accepted. Being unconscious devastate each hope that a forsaken child can bear in mind. In every single breath that they take, there’s an eye that filled with pain and blues. Their emptiness cannot be filled with a single coin that they earned; they need parents that will guide them and give all their needs and someone who can fill their emptiness.
Government’s eye should be open and partake on this kind of problem. Government should widen more their responsibilities and cracked this hindrance to success. A child needs you!!! Open your eyes and unlock your heart!!!
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