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A World for Children: Growing Up Without Child Labour
Child labor is not a natural phenomenon.
There seems to be a persistent misconception about child first the poverty problem must be solved and then child labor will no longer be necessary. This is putting the cart before the horse. Poverty is in fact not the cause of child labor but it is a result of child labor. The fight against poverty must begin with the fight against child labor. Children can contribute to the development of their country, in the future, but only if they are given a chance to go to school now.
In A World for Growing Up Without Child Labour author and photographer Peter de Ruiter touches a raw nerve. During his travels in nine countries across three continents he began to understand the reality of child labor, how it originates and why. He noted the fallacies created to justify why children should work. He photographed the injustice the children are subjected to. And he offers solutions--the reader is given different ideas on how to personally take action against child labor.
Children must go to school. They must play and learn and be allowed to develop their full potential. It is up to adults to create a world in which children can do exactly a world for children. Child labor is not a natural phenomenon. It was created by man and can be ended by man.
A World for Children is targeted towards a wide consumers, aid organization employees, politicians, students, children from about the age of ten and anyone who feels touched by the subject. The more than 400 gripping photos and the critical text spread just one stop child labor now.
There seems to be a persistent misconception about child first the poverty problem must be solved and then child labor will no longer be necessary. This is putting the cart before the horse. Poverty is in fact not the cause of child labor but it is a result of child labor. The fight against poverty must begin with the fight against child labor. Children can contribute to the development of their country, in the future, but only if they are given a chance to go to school now.
In A World for Growing Up Without Child Labour author and photographer Peter de Ruiter touches a raw nerve. During his travels in nine countries across three continents he began to understand the reality of child labor, how it originates and why. He noted the fallacies created to justify why children should work. He photographed the injustice the children are subjected to. And he offers solutions--the reader is given different ideas on how to personally take action against child labor.
Children must go to school. They must play and learn and be allowed to develop their full potential. It is up to adults to create a world in which children can do exactly a world for children. Child labor is not a natural phenomenon. It was created by man and can be ended by man.
A World for Children is targeted towards a wide consumers, aid organization employees, politicians, students, children from about the age of ten and anyone who feels touched by the subject. The more than 400 gripping photos and the critical text spread just one stop child labor now.
200 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2009
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