“The economic reality means we work to help our families, our rights should be protected” says 17-year-old Noemi Gutierrez, a leader of Bolivia’s Union of Child and Adolescent Workers. The rights of these kids should be respected, they are working because their economic position leaves them in that situation, they don’t have enough money to substantiate their family. The only solution …show more content…
These kids unfortunately have to do these kinds of jobs not to buy something that they saw and liked, but to survive. If they don’t perform these jobs they will suffer a lot way worse. The kids that are in this horrible situation deserve to have the opportunity of working, in others words they should be allowed to work, they deserve the opportunity of life even if is in a horrible way. Because these jobs mean their life, if they don’t perform these their lives will become to an end.
Another reason why kids should be allowed to work is because some kids can’t go to school because where they live school is not free. “By working on these types of jobs they can pay their education in places where unfortunately school isn’t free”. In some places the only kids who go to school are the kids who parents have the money for it, but some don’t have the money for it so the only way for them to attend school is if they work. Even when schooling is ostensibly ‘free’ studies have shown that the accessories such as activity fees, uniforms, paper and pens, text books, transport, lunches and others are …show more content…
Since those kids don't have the comfort of going to school free, the only way is gaining money with hard work.
“Many forms of work do help kids to learn new skills”. The skills that the kids learn on their jobs, might help them later in life, they could get a better job because they have experience, so it will be better when they grow up to have a better life, and those skills not just are going to help them in jobs it might help them later in life.
But out there are some people who thinks that kids shouldn’t be allowed to work because “These kids aren’t meant to last very long, by performing these dangerous jobs they are putting their lives in danger”. It is true those jobs can be pretty difficult for them, but at the end if they don’t work it will be a lot worse and people have to understand that, those jobs are their lives, it is true that they are putting their lives in danger, but the fact that they have the opportunity of working, by working they are trying to live in a place where is really