We Need to Go to School: Voices of the Rugmark Children

by Tanya Roberts-Davis

A powerful collection of first-person accounts and illustrations from a group of Nepalese children details their journey from hard labor, where they were abused by their supervisors, to the promise of a bright future given to them by the Rugmark Foundation who gave them the opportunity to attend school.

48 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[B]

J 331.31 W About Nepalese carpet workers..that are children.

[Katrinadohn Dohn]

While this is obviously an advertisement for the Rugmark Company, it doesn shed light on the horrors of child labor in Nepal, especially in the rug factories.