CHILD LABOR

BRAZIL BY JOMY SAINT AND TOFFY PINK DICTATORS

BRAZIL ON CHILD LABOR

To force a child to work is to steal the future of that child Brazils President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva

Many kids will plow, collect food and do other farm works to make small amounts of money

"...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity." -Carol Bellamy

Why Do they Work? Child Labor in Brazil was started by extreme poverty. When the adult members in the household do not generate sufcient income, children are usually expected to work. Kids will go and start having jobs at around 7 years old and earn half of what theyre supposed to. So the lower the income of the community, the more children is used to work. Child labor existed way before this generation, it was used from decades back. In the poor northern areas of Brazil, most of the people who are adults today started working before they were eight years old. So, child labor was viewed to the people as a habit, not a serious issue. Another reason for parents to send children to work relates to the condition of Brazilian public schools. In rare populated rural areas, primary schools are located far away from each other, and secondary schools only exist in bigger cities. Schools in those areas are in very bad conditions due to the lack of care given to them. So the parents think that spending their money for these schools are a waste of time.

What Jobs Did they have The children in Brazil had multiple jobs including cleaning, farming, brick making, and even metal working. Kids usually do manual tasks. Only on rare occasions where we see kids use machine to do jobs. The jobs that kids face during their childhood is proved to be too severe for them in many ways. Kids cut themselves, get injured or even die from doing these jobs. Analysis of preliminary 2010 census gures compiled by Brazil's government statistics agency shows that more than 1 million children between the ages of 10 and 14 were working in 2009. Most kids live a very lonely life. They dont make friends because of their busy schedules and their lack of education. A lot of kids in northern Brazil didnt receive enough education to read and write properly.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time. -Grace Abbot

A study of the shoe manufacturing industry in the city of Franca, Sao Paulo, was conducted by the National Trade Union Congress. Of the 7000 persons working in the subcontracting of shoe parts, 1,300 were children under the legal age of 14. Shoes are one of the leading exports from Brazil, with the industry in Franca contributing signicantly to the country's footwear production. In 1993, the United States imported $289 million in textiles from Brazil. Several sources have reported the existence of child labor in the weaving other sewing tasks of the textile and garment industries. There are additional export industries which have been alleged to use child labor, including the wood pulp, handicrafts, electronics, leather, and gold mining industries.

Over 20 million children of conict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.Angelina Jolie There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.-Scarlett Johansson

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children.- Ko Annan

REGULATIONS & SOLUTIONS

Bolsa Famlia
President Lula implemented a policy in order to reduce child labor, Bolsa Famlia, it is a nancial assistant program for the needy families. This policy, not only give the money to the families, they also make sure that the children attend school regularly and receive vaccinations. They also provide a monthly stipend for children to attend school up to three children per family (22 reals); available for the families that have the income below the poverty line (less 140 reals

income per month). Others that are in extreme poverty also receive 68 reals per month (less than 70 reals income per month). In the short term, the aim is to alleviate the problems resulting from poverty. In the long term, the goal is to invest in human capital and interrupt the vicious cycle of poverty. By February 2011, 26% of the Brazilian population were covered by this program.

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country." - Harry Belafonte

It is almost impossible to stop child labor because when the government outlaw child labor, parents are more likely to force their children to work in less regulated and less visible jobs. Many of them were forced to work in private households so that it is harder to detect. We believe that the best way to stop child labor is to give the kids the best education as possible. So, in order to make this happen, the Bolsa Famlia should build cleaner and better schools for the kids on the northern part of Brazil.

"Fight for the Future of Young Lives. Who knows we may find the next President working in a hotel..." - yahoo user

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Sites http://www.coha.org/made-in-brazil-confronting-child-labor/ http://www.betterworld.net/quotes/children-quotes.htm http://stopchildlabor.org/?cat=278 http://www.hufngtonpost.com/2011/12/28/brazil-child-labor-sta tistics_n_1172631.html

Children are missing your love, care and protection. - Jackie Chan

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