Call to Action

Importance of Advocating

Why is it important to help these children?  Every child deserves a good childhood.  It is not morally right to let these foreign children live in poverty and danger with little reward, while the children of the richer countries, like America, get iPhones and computers for Christmas.  It is a huge slap to each child’s face that they live like they do while creating expensive products for these other children.  We must help end child labor and let these children live a longer, happier, better life.
It is important to speak up about these children because they have nobody else to speak for them.  Children can get scared easily, and these children do not know how to speak up for themselves, and who to tell their story to.  It is our job as educated people to assist these children in finding a voice and teaching the world about how their life truly is, and what these children suffer through. 

USE YOUR VOICE TO HELP FIND THEIRS

Some other organizations similar to ours:
Save the Children is an independent organization driven to help all children in general.  Their mission is to "inspire breakthroughin the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives."  The donated money goes to fund programs which pull children out of danger and provide education not only to the children but education about how to properly treat children.
savethechildren.org

The Child Labor Coalition is a national network that informs the world about child labor and its effects.  Their mission is to "promote health, safety, education, and well-being for working minors" and they hope to end the exploitation of child labor.  They have previously been successful with their work; they've gone to the Supreme Court of India with inquiries and law requests and eventually passed a few laws benefiting kidnapped children that were probably being sent to work in a factory.
stopchildlabor.org


Free the Children is an international charity that teaches children and adults about child labor.  They encourage school-age children to fundraise to help out the working children who need help.  Free the Children targets themselves to the youth to help free children from child labor.  They also work with communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
freethechildren.com

The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC) is an organization that helps the children who are forced to work.  It gives an equal voice to all kinds of people - employers, employees, etc - and help figure out a middle in which both sides get mostly what they want.  The donated money goes to plans and programs that work furiously to end child labor.
ilo.org 

You can learn more about child labor by watching this short documentary:

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