How many minutes a day do you do chores? Five minutes? Ten minutes? Twenty minutes? What about fourteen hours a day with only a lunch break? Well, if you lived in a developing country, right now, you might be doing chores non-stop for fourteen hours daily. Child labor is a real and significant issue around the world right now.
If you lived in Bangladesh, you might be forced to quit school and work in a sweatshop for $3.00 a month. In poor and developing countries like Bangladesh, China, Costa Rica, The Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haití, Honduras, Indonesia, Nicaragua, and Vietnam, there are kids making your clothes right now. Yes, YOUR clothes. Although you may think that your clothes just come from machines in different countries, …show more content…
I think of kids going to work even if they are sick because if they don’t, they will get a beating. I think of kids not being able to have a childhood just because their families can’t afford for them to not work. Can you imagine not being able to go to school just to go to a hot, loud factory and work all day? Well, you would probably just have to get used to it if you lived in a poor family in a developing country. If you are tough, you may not think that is a big deal. But if you knew what conditions that these people live in, you might think otherwise. Factory owners build the factories bigger and taller than what is safe just to get more workers and more money. On Wednesday, April 24, 2016, there was a building collapse killing 1,129 people and injuring about 2,500 others. There are also a lot of fires that happen in factories because of the machines being overworked and overheated. Although a lot of child labor takes place in factories, they aren’t the only places that child labor takes place. In America, some child labor takes place on nicotine farms where kids can get cancer, respiratory problems, and nicotine poisoning. It is almost like you are forced to go develop problems with your body systems and then you get paid a very low wage. In America, the minimum wage is $7.25 per day. In developing countries, the minimum wage could be as low as $.10 per day. Could you imagine having to do all that work and only being paid about $36.00 a
If you lived in Bangladesh, you might be forced to quit school and work in a sweatshop for $3.00 a month. In poor and developing countries like Bangladesh, China, Costa Rica, The Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haití, Honduras, Indonesia, Nicaragua, and Vietnam, there are kids making your clothes right now. Yes, YOUR clothes. Although you may think that your clothes just come from machines in different countries, …show more content…
I think of kids going to work even if they are sick because if they don’t, they will get a beating. I think of kids not being able to have a childhood just because their families can’t afford for them to not work. Can you imagine not being able to go to school just to go to a hot, loud factory and work all day? Well, you would probably just have to get used to it if you lived in a poor family in a developing country. If you are tough, you may not think that is a big deal. But if you knew what conditions that these people live in, you might think otherwise. Factory owners build the factories bigger and taller than what is safe just to get more workers and more money. On Wednesday, April 24, 2016, there was a building collapse killing 1,129 people and injuring about 2,500 others. There are also a lot of fires that happen in factories because of the machines being overworked and overheated. Although a lot of child labor takes place in factories, they aren’t the only places that child labor takes place. In America, some child labor takes place on nicotine farms where kids can get cancer, respiratory problems, and nicotine poisoning. It is almost like you are forced to go develop problems with your body systems and then you get paid a very low wage. In America, the minimum wage is $7.25 per day. In developing countries, the minimum wage could be as low as $.10 per day. Could you imagine having to do all that work and only being paid about $36.00 a