These 10 Children in Asia Will Make You Feel Grateful
It's World Child Labour Day. What does this mean to us as people who don't know what it's like to collect rubbish at a young age? What can we do to help? We searched for 10 stories of children in Asia whose lives we could all learn from.
#03. Young children collecting usable waste from one of the biggest landfill sites in the Philippines
#06. 7 year old child collecting steaming rubbish heap on a cold winter morning
What now? Three things you can do that will make a difference:
SHARE & JOIN THIS 2013: World Vision Malaysia (WVM) has started its 30-Hour Famine movement for 2013. The fund-raising campaign see participants old and young across the nation fast for 30 hours while educating themselves and others on global hunger and poverty.
bit.lyPLEDGE TO RAISE VOICE AGAINST CHILD LABOUR IN ALL ITS FORMS. TREAT ALL CHILDREN EQUALLY. NEVER EMPLOY ANY CHILD IN HOUSE OR IN SHOP. NEVER BUY PRODUCTS MADE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY BY EXPLOITING CHILDREN.
savethechildren.inSIGN A PETITION: Tell Forever 21 to Stop Forced Child Labor in Cotton! The government of Uzbekistan continues to remove millions of children across the country from school and force them to pick cotton during the harvest season.
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