Posts Tagged ‘begging’
How low will Child Labour go?
Monday, May 12th, 2008While travelling through South America I continuous came across, what I consider, the worst type of forced child labour. Child begging. Obviously, people are more willing to give money out to a poor suffering child than an adult and if that poor child is homeless or with nothing it can be heartbreaking. But a regular thing that I came across was 2 or 3 children going from stranger to stranger begging while their mother or older brother or sister waited sitting in the shade. Not only will this make people lose faith in the plight of the children, the parents of the children are, to me, the lowest of the low.
Why can’t the governments do enough to stop child labor?
Thursday, February 14th, 2008I have seen children on the streets begging for money on a school day. I have heard of children being used to fight wars. I have heard of young girls selling themselves for money. How is this possible in today’s world? Can’t we do enough to stop these atrocities?

