Someday Well Know.

Wars, Suicides, Genocide. All of these problems are disturbing, and unfortunately we hear about them in the news daily. Those are all very important issues to discuss but I believe that in order to spread change, we must tackle the little issues first and then move on to the bigger issues. Why did I chose to spread awareness and talk about Child Labor and not any other issue? The reason is because I had a wonderful childhood and I am very thankful. To hear about children who have to work instead of enjoy and live a worry-less life is heartbreaking. Children under the age of fifteen should not work, if they do work its for experience and not in order to support their families and themselves. When this happens, this means that something is terribly wrong. My main goal here is to understand why child labor is still happening to young children in developing countries? Where are the adults? I believe that even if it is not easy, adults should work and have the children stay at home with the relative. Working in such dangerous conditions such as mines and trying to work huge factory machines is dangerous to the child's health. No child should experience such conditions and situations as a child. 

A few hours ago, I attended a lecture by an author called Firoozeh Dumas and as one of her jokes she says, "The friends I had as a child said that the smell of nutmeg and vanilla, but because I was from an oil producing area in Iran, the smell of oil reminded me of my childhood." (Dumas, Firoozeh) What will the children who are working in factories say about their childhood? Will they talk about how the smoke permanently damaged their lungs for the rest of their lives? Or how the scars they have are not from falls or from playing a sport but from being tortured for not working at a fast pace? What do you think? 

 I believe that this is one issue I will never understand. 

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