Child+Labor+Group+A

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)

HI GROUP A. IT'S SCHMORLANDO HERE. //SO// SORRY ABOUT NOT GETTING BACK TO YOU. MY AGENT CALLED ABOUT A SCRIPT, AND I LOST TRACK OF TIME. GOOD JOB ON YOUR FACTS. I LOOK FORWARD TO GRADING YOUR TWO-VOICE POEMS (SPEAKING OF LABOR ISSUES, THAT MRS. MYERS WORKS ME TOO HARD!!!)

Hola! This is umssabra, and I'm doing child labor laws in China. Here is some of my important facts: I may have more updates later!!
 * 250 million kids between 5 - 14 work in countries, 61% in Asia
 * Child labor in China is increasing because of a higher dropout rate
 * China is a main country that exploits the regulations of child labor
 * Kids between the ages of 10-16 are working 14 hours a day
 * Promised 20 fen (2 cents in US money) but in reality paid 3 fen (0.30 cents in US money)
 * Explosion in firework factory caused 34 injuries and one death
 * Girls were ordered to work two 24 hour shifts each month to meet higher holiday demand

Hey! This is umssadie! Sorry about the limited amount of info- the computer deleted everything on this page before I saved!! I promise I'll fill in the rest of the info later. I read the article on the Diamonds. Here are some facts.
 * child workers usually age from 8 to 16
 * mainly happening in South Africa and India diamond mines
 * children work in hazardous sweatshops that have poor conditions
 * they work long hours with very little pay

More Later! :-)

this is umssabrina! I read the article on the chocolate. here are some of my facts:

that is all the info I got, but i might have more later!!!!!!!!! umssabrina :-)
 * children work from 9-16 years old
 * work on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast
 * about 15,000 children work on farms
 * kids sold by family or tricked into slavery
 * don't get paid
 * exposed to extreme heat and pesticides
 * beaten if they don't do thier job
 * families hae extreme poverty and sell kids to get money
 * hersheys and mms buy cocoa from Ivory Coast nad other enslaves places
 * Fair Trade Cocoa has inspections of cocoa farms t ocheck for slaves
 * Cadbury Chocolate suppots Fair Trade
 * Companies need to use money and power to change situation

hey! this is uMsSaBiR! I read the article on fOuL ball... here are some of my facts:


 * in sporting-goods factories in Pakistan, children, most aged 5-10, were employed
 * the children made soccerballs
 * they work eighty hours a week in near-total darkness and total silence
 * they are permitted one thirty-minute meal break each day
 * they are punished if they take longer or if they fall asleep, if their workbenches are sloppy, if they waste material or miscut a pattern, if they complain of mistreatment to their parents or speak to strangers outside the factory
 * punishments were doled out in a storage closet at the rear of the factory
 * in the closet, amid bales of wadding and leather, children are hung upside down by their knees, starved, caned, or lashed
 * in 1996, more than 80% of the soccerballs sold in the US of A came from Pakistan
 * approximately 20% of the balls were made by the children
 * the sweat of child labor is invisible

hey this is umssabrina!!! I already gave you all of my info so bye bye :-)

Hey!! umsSadie here, peeps! More info coming your way....

(is it really worth buying an overpriced diamond that a child might have died looking for?!?!?!?! Think about it) (back to the whole 'is it really worth it' factor.)
 * DeBeers Group is known for the marketing of diamonds and having cruel working conditions
 * DeBeers Group also overprices their diamonds, i.e.- one would have to pay at least $229.00 for one of the smallest diamonds sold
 * Child workers are easily exploited and abused at DeBeers
 * Workers are more prone to get dangerous diseases such as malaria, dysentery, and sexual diseases SCHMORLANDO WANTS TO KNOW WHY THIS IS...
 * Workers also suffer from eyestrain, headaches, mal nutrition, and repirtory problems
 * Children become slaves because most families are poor and they rely on children to bring home some moo-lah
 * Other children work because they are uneducated and their family can't send them to school, so working is the only option for them

Well, I think you're a little over whelmed from all the info I've given you. Oh well, peace out peeps!!!! umsSadie, out.