Child+Labor+Group+B

==**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 B GROUP. IT'S SCHMORLANDO HERE. SORRY ABOUT NOT GETTING BACK TO YOU EARLIER. MRS. MYERS SENT ME ON A TALK WALK AND I GOT LOST. FORTUNATELY, I'M BACK AND WILL BE MAKING COMMENTS IN ALL CAPS.

Apples

I read the foul ball article and these are my facts: ~umssallie group B
 * soccer ball sewers in Pakistan work 80 hours a week SEWERS? EXPLAIN MORE.
 * work in little lighting and complete silence
 * on half an hour break each day
 * they get in trouble if they take a longer break, fall asleep, work areas are sloppy, waste or miscut materials, complain, or talk to strangers outside the factory
 * punishments include being hung upside down by knees or starved
 * 3.6 million Pakistan children work earning a little as 24 cents a day

I read the china article. these are some facts:

UMSSAKURA--ARE THERE ANY 'WATCH DOG' GROUPS TRYING TO HELP THESE CHILDREN IN CHINA? I BELIEVE THE ARTICLE MENTIONS SOME. ~umssakura group B
 * 250 million kids ages 5-14 work in devloping countries
 * Harsh discipline like phisical and verbal abuse
 * Kids work 10-14 hours a day withy half of what an adult is paid
 * Children work in dangerous fireworks factories and there was an explosion that killed many children
 * They were paid 2 cents for making a long braid of fireworks but normally were paid 0.3 cents
 * During the holidays, girls were asked to work two 24 hour shifts

~umsskima did the CHOCOLATE one!!

I read the chocolate article. Here are some facts from the article:


 * 43% of the cocoa that is in chocolate is from the Ivory Coast in Africa.
 * 1998, there was an investigation in the cocoa fields, this is what they found:
 * Many children who work in the cocoa fields are either tricked or sold from their families into slavery
 * The kids work from 6 am to 6:30 pm in harsh conditions (extream heat, pesticides)
 * The kids are promised money for their families if they work yet they don't even get a cent
 * If they drop their bag of cocoa beans, they are whipped until they are back up (ouch)
 * They are locked up at night in a REALLY TINY room with only a small hole in it to breath out of
 * There are aboout 18 kids in each room and they each sleep on wodden boards
 * Some of the laws are helping to stop child labor yet not that many succeed

~umsskima group B SCHMORLANDO WANTS TO KNOW IF THIS IS THE DIAMOND ARTICLE. ALSO, WHAT DO NIKE AND WALMART HAVE TO DO WITH DIAMONDS? EXPLAIN PLEASE. -people abuse younger kids to make a profit -children ranging from 8-16 work in danderous mines with bad conditions -these people (CHILDREN? ADULTS? are given long hours of work, little pay, overcrowding, and disease -products such as mardi gras beads, jewelry, clothes, and cheap toys are made -diamond industry is famous for this abuse -walmart and Nike buy products from slave driven companys==