Little hands at work
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Exercises
1. Child labour in developing countries
Read an article about child labour.
- Discuss which consequences it may have when children begin to work while they are very young.
- Why do children work?
- Can children do anything to improve their conditions?
- Who can help child workers?
- What kind of help would be most fitting for child workers? Write a contribution about what can be done against damaging child labour and mail it to the ongoing debate on the debate forum at Black Box’s homepage at http://www.blackboxes.org.
2. Children working in your country
- Make a quick poll in your class to find out how many of you are working and how many hours you spend at work.
- Calculate how many hours per week you work in average.
- Discuss advantages and disadvantages about working.
3. Children tell stories about child labour
Read the letter Child Labour in Mongolia – by Zulaa from school number 72 in Mongolia and the poem Stolen Innocence – by Sarah Khan from Pakistan.
The letter and the poem is from the australian iearn project, "Fight Against Child labour": http://www.iearn.org.au/clp/index.htm
- Write a letter or a poem where you describe your own thoughts about child labour. Try to write it in English and mail it to the debate forum at Black Box’s homepage at http://www.blackboxes.org
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Facts about child labour
According to UNICEF, there are 250 million children between 5 and 14 who do hard and health damaging work.
 More facts about child labour |
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It doesn't always have to be a bad thing that children work. Monita from Laos helps sewing at her school.
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