[CRC] Child Labor Around the World
Aamina wakes up everyday. She is sad because she knows she has to walk 3 1/2 miles to go to work. She works in a clothing factory hand sewing seams onto socks.
Aamina is an 11-year-old girl from Ethiopia. She is one of the 43% of Ethiopian children who have to work to survive. If she cannot work, she cannot buy food. If she cannot buy food, she will starve and die. Aamina doesn't have the opportunity to go to school because she is working 10-hour-a-day shifts.
Aamina wishes she didn't have to work and she could go to school, learn, and make friends. Aamina wishes she had a childhood. Aamina wants her rights as a human.
In Ethiopia, 43% of children between the ages of 5-11 have to go to work everyday for at least one hour a day.
I wrote this story to show how miserable kids are to work. They deserve a childhood. They deserve the basic human rights.
