Child+Labor+Group+E

You are going to share the facts you learned in your article with your group. You should write facts that you think will be helpful for others to include in their two-voice poems. In addition, you may ask questions or comment about the facts other people have written. Remember to write in YOUR CODE NAME only. Also, be sure to state what article you read (Diamonds, China, Chocolate, or Foul Ball)

//THIS IS SCHMORLANDO. MRS. MYERS ASKED ME TO READ OVER YOUR NOTES. UMSSCANLON,// //YOU'VE PROVIDED A LOT OF FACTS. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. CHINA, YOUR GROUP COULD USE MORE FACTS FROM YOU. TO THE DIAMOND AND FOUL BALL ARTICLES, WHERE ARE YOUR FACTS????//

Hey my fellow peers. I read the __China__ article. These are some of the facts I recieved: -250 million children between 5 and 14 are child laborers. -61 percent are in Asia (152,500,000 children) -China's political system is keeping the child laborer information confidential -China has no non-goverment organizations -some 12-year olds sleep in a bed with 1 or 2 other people. -Children are working in the pyrotechnic and fireworks industry -counterfeit I.D. are in use with workers who are 3 and 4 years younger than the legal age; 16

Peace out girl scout. Don't eat too many cookies. umsseth

And also, FoulBall person needs to get more facts.

I read the //__Chocolate's Sweet Scandel.__// Here are some cruel facts i recieved: -15,000 children are working as slaves on cocoa farms.Ages range from from 9-16 - Children are tricked into slavery by being offered money and never recieving it. Many families have to sell their children to cocoa farms in hopes of getting some income. - The Harken-Engle Protocol was a goal to establiush a system by 2005 that would allow chocolate to be produced without child labor. Very little has been done to improve. - Charges have been made on Nestle for misleading the public. They have done nothing to prevent the child labor on cocoa farms. But they said they had - Fair Trade is a system that doesn't use child labor but a system of global monitoring and ceritifaction. Only 1.3% of chocolate experts use Fair Trade umsscanlon :) :0 Peace all you homies!!!! **//F0UL BALL where are your facts?//**

I did the __Diamond__ article. Here are the facts that i got: -diamond mines are very dangerous places for children -DeBeers was major diamond company that used child workers -organizations try to stop child labor like CLNS or the IHTS -1994 16 percent of workers were underaged -171 million children who work on hazerdous sites -Nike and Wal-Mart are major companies that use child workers -done by the great umssaxon :}

I read the //Foul Ball// article. Here are the facts that I got: -Children in Pakistan ages 4 to 20 spend an average of over 10 hours a day hand-sewing soccer balls for a pay of around $0.60/day -80% of soccer balls in the US were made in Pakistan; 20% of these were made by kids -