A child must have a nurturing
childhood filled with excitement and fun. The uncountable kisses and hugs from
their loved ones, getting treated like a prince or princess on their birthdays,
being a darling should definitely be a part of the childhood.The memory of
childhood needs to be worth cherishing. However child labor snatches away this one
bit of joy from them, leaving them in absolute misery.It is to my greatest
dismay that some of the children, those who are not tenacious consider suicide.Since
the children are exposed to a great deal of hard work at such an early age they
are faced with harrowing ordeal, due to the extended work hours with limited hours
of sleep, raiment and food. Mostly they are scarcely provided slices of bread
and water with seldom tips from their master-workmen.
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The CNN freedom project covered a story about children working in the cocoa fields of Ivory Coast where a boy named Abdul of 10 years old,a three-year veteran of the job mentioned that he has never tasted chocolate. He works for a chocolate factory yet he does not know what chocolate tastes like. Shocking but true. There are a great number of youngsters working in these fields excluding Abdul. They dream of attending school and lead a normal, blessed life like every other child, only this has remained as a dream for them. In addition to this young workers tend to get injure themselves frequently. A co-worker of Abdul from Ivory Coast, Yacou (who claims that he is 16 years old even though his face tells otherwise) finds it impossible to clear away the grass in the cocoa fields from a machete without bruising himself badly leaving scars which are visible on his legs. The mental, emotional scars must run deeper than the physical scars. It has been stated in the Child Labor Education Project that most of the studies in various countries have shown that children working in agriculture are exposed to high levels of injury. Unfortunately most of the juvenile work in the agriculture. Above all, child labor contributes to poverty, a life of poorly paid hard work with nothing except mournfulness.
The massive challenges faced to humanity today are due to poverty and it is to our greatest joy that this issue has been brought to a global level and made a serious issue. However efficient actions haven’t yet been taken to diminish the numerate people living in extreme poverty. According to UNICEF Nearly one third of children in Sub-Saharan Africa are underweight while almost half of Asia’s 1.27 billion children live in poverty, bereaved of food, safe drinking water, health or shelter as said by a development agency in a report. Tearful but true. As mentioned by the Global Issues 2.2 million children die each year as they are not immunized, at the same instant 1.5 million children are orphaned due to the deathly HIV AIDS which is equivalent to the gross of children population in the United Kingdom.
Numerous factors contribute to poverty. It comprises factors such as overpopulation, disproportionate education plus employment, debasement of natural resources, apathy, high standards of living, natural disasters and much more. Overpopulation diminishes the land space and resources, hindering the availability of them. Especially the countries which depend on agriculture can provide food for a small crowd. Furthermore governments are unable to provide educational facilities to the citizens, which persuade the parents to enroll their children in labor. The parents cannot give them a home-based education as they too do not have acquired knowledge in their youth. Nearly 70 million children today are prevented from going to school each day as published by The Guardian. Researches fear that the children who belong to families with low income are most likely to miss the academic years due to the variation between lower, middle and higher classes.
Unemployment is directly proportional to poverty. People with no jobs make inferior amounts of income, contributing to poverty. It has been mentioned in ‘The Hunger Project’ that 1.4 billion People in developing countries live on $1.25 a day or less which is 1/5th of what most people spend in a day.
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