By Nikeeta SinghNikeeta Singh is a 14-year-faded student in current Delhi,India. It is said that childhood is the best gift given to us by God. Everything is different when youre a child: the trees are higher, the colours are more vivid than ever, or every current day is a current opportunity.
However,childhood is not the same for all. For some it is waking up at six in the morning and working till the sun sets; it is staying absent from your parents to earn minimum wages; it is working in inhumane environments in hopes of a brighter future. This is the reality of child labour.
Child labour is experienced by every one in ten children around the globe. At the age when children should worry about their marks they are worrying about their health and economic status. But how can we blame these innocent angels? Uneducated parents are one of the major sources that contribute to child labour. It is the children of poor and marginalized communities who are often trafficked and forced into labour. Parents of these children are either betrayed or lured into schemes due to their lack of awareness and poor socio-economic conditions, forcing them to send or sell their children for better livelihood options. Traffickers promise daily wages to parents of young children and transport them to stout cities where they are often treated as commodities. Families in dire financial conditions are can be approached by traffickers with an offer to buy their children, and with no other escape from their pitiful conditions,parents comply.… Read the rest
Source: stopchildlabor.org