Slave labor, not just in remote places
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Child Labor? Child Slave!
It is never new for us to see some children have been trained to make money by begging, working in some factories day and night, or even by committing a crime. Some of them come out to work because of the financial burden of the family, while most of them have been abducted by the trader in human beings, and have been forced to work by their “owner”.
Everyone knows the country severely cracks down on the illegal act of employing of children for the labor. Yet the “baby faces” never disappear from the factories where are not belong to them at all. There is no actual numbers showing how many children are working, that child labor makes up about 20% of the work force in China. The factories prefer children because they work for very low wages, are easily intimidated and able to fit in small work spaces..
Lots of children work for 12 to 18 hours a day, eat bad, and stay in awful work places. Some of them even work in very dangerous place like the coal pit. They have no security for their health, and even their lives.
Some may think the slaves lives only in far remote ancient times, actually they are still exist here, down the corner in our society, in our times, with the face of an angel.
We owe them a health and happy childhood, a future, and essentially, the right to live as a free man.