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How you can help end child labor…

If you want to help the children working in the Philippines, here’s one thing you can do. Spread the word by using the #minersoverming under your post and spreading the word about what is happening. According to poerty-action.org, the way we can help prevent child labor is by preventing low-income families from falling below the poverty line. “Because poverty is considered the root cause of child labor, policymakers have aimed to reduce child labor by improving the economic welfare of poor households. This study aimed to shed light on whether sustainable livelihoods promotion can stop child labor where it already exists, which many other interventions have failed to do, and prevent it from occurring in households that are vulnerable to using child labor.” They also stated that “Child welfare increased on average.3 This appears to be driven largely by changes in life satisfaction and is concentrated among children already in child labor before the program started. These improvements in welfare for children who were laborers before the program began seem to again be due to improvements in life satisfaction. Children were more likely to report that they were thriving and had higher scores on the Student’s Life Satisfaction Survey. “ meaning that the children who were appointed welfare noticed that their quality of life (their happiness and everyday emotions) improved when they received help. If things like poverty are the things that cause child labor, then things like welfare can be the solution. This is why we should use the campaign #minersovermining to raise money for those in need of it. Our goal is to end child labor. Together we can utilize the media to grab the attention of the philippine’s government and change the laws to be stricter. Child labor normally begins with poverty, but change begins with us.

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What you need to know about Child Labor in the Philippines…

Kids in the Philippines are plagued with the duty of diving for gold that lurks beneath the water’s surface. As children, they are really susceptible to diseases and suffocation, not to mention the risk of the water-filled caverns collapsing upon them. There are over 300,00 children who work in these caverns every day for small amounts of money, and it’s our job to fix it. According to the human rights watch, the kids who dive for this gold (within these underwater mines) are always afraid of what could happen. “thousands of children in the Philippines risk their lives every day mining gold. Children work in unstable 25-meter-deep pits that could collapse at any moment. They mine gold underwater, along the shore, or in rivers, with oxygen tubes in their mouths. They also process gold with mercury, a toxic metal, risking irreversible health damage from mercury poisoning.” Imagine living each day of your life in constant fear of death and suffocation. We can only imagine the long term effects of doing such things to your body. We can also not predict the long term effects of mercury poisoning on a child’s body. The Watch also stated that “During an investigation in the Camarines Norte and Masbate provinces in the country’s Bicol region, Human Rights Watch interviewed 65 child miners about their work in artisanal and small-scale gold mines.

The children described how they were terrified when climbing down shafts or diving into pits. They complained about the health effects of the work, such as back pain, skin infections, and muscle spasms consistent with symptoms of mercury poisoning. Human Rights Watch also interviewed witnesses to a fatal mining accident, in which a 17-year-old boy and his adult brother were asphyxiated in a deep pit mine in September 2014.” This proves that mining in such horrible conditions can damage your body in horrifying ways and confirms that the practice is deadly. Do we really want the children of the future to be plagued with what should be an irrational fear of suffocation and MERCURY poisoning? No, we do not. The kids are also required to travel down into dark, deep, unsafe tunnels in the ground in attempts to collect this rare metal, risking their lives for something they cannot use or have. Later on, we will post more about helping these children out of their painstaking situations and into freedom. #minersovermining

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What is currently being done about child miners in the Philippines?

As of now, the only things being done about the child miners in the Philippines is a loosely followed law made by their government. There is currently a study being done on child labor and its connection to poverty and lack of resources, but the general consensus of the study is that they have heavy connections. The program is called KASAMA and it focuses on “child labor, economic activity, household income, and consumption”. Here’s what the Poverty Action Organization has to say about it: “The program offered households a productive asset along with a short business training and was designed to support families in moving to more entrepreneurial activities and sustainable livelihoods. Potential beneficiaries were drawn from existing government lists of vulnerable families with children and families with child laborers.” The people running the movement are using these actions to study other ways we can help as well. You can see the final reports of the study here. The main reason for child labor (from an economic standpoint) is the fact that its cheaper than providing normal work. Yet, studies show that child labor actually damages our economy because it damages children’s bodies at a young age and prevents them from continuing work when they grow older. This means that by using chid labor resources, the economy actually gradually falls because fewer people are working. We see explicit evidence of this in the first industrial revolution when people everywhere were exposed to toxic air and dusty rooms, giving them early onset problems that plagued the rest of their lives. If children were to start working around the ages of 10 to thirteen, this means they were starting right as they became teenagers and entered puberty. Doing such things can shorten a person’s lifespan and prevent them from entering the adult workforce later in their lives. Is this really what we want for the children of the future? Damaging their lungs and bodies before they’re even capable of living up to their full potential? And if not that, purposely damaging our future economy because its cheaper for us right now. We need to think about the future of this world and the people in it. Use the hashtag #minersovermining to spread the word further.

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Kids in the Philippines are plagued with the duty of diving for gold that lies beneath the water’s surface. As children, they are extremely susceptible to diseases and suffocation, not to mention the risk of the water-filled caverns collapsing. What will you do to help?

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Take a look at these children and tell me what you see. Do you see child laborers in need of help and at risk of suffocation and asphyxiation? As of now, the only thing being done to help these miners is a loosely met law made by the government in The Philippines. What can you do to help?

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If you want to help th children working in the Philippines, here’s one thing you can do; spread the word by using the #minersovermining under your post and spreading the word about what is happening. Together we will utilize the media to grab the attention of the Philippines’ government and change the laws to be stricter. Child labor normally begins with poverty, but change can begin with us.

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CVS took all their tobacco products out of their stores to make a change towards children working in tobacco fields. Finally, someone stepped up and made a change, they sacrificed losing over 2 billion dollars a year. Who’s going to make the next CHANGE?

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Children rise at 5am and instead of getting ready for school they get ready for a long day of work where they only get paid 7.25 an hour and they don’t get paid overtime. There they farm tobacco leaves exposing their skin to green tobacco poisoning!

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GREEN TOBACCO SICKNESS is a REAL THING! And many children are getting poisoned from the morning dew on the leaves. Adult farmers know this and still force children to work while they are showing symptoms of green tobacco poisoning. They are throwing up, fainting and experiencing headaches and nausea. HOW IS THIS OKAY?

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This infographic photo shows how these children that work to get cocoa are endangering their lives. Child Labor affects these children in many ways and affects their education,lives,future,etc. #stopchildlabor and #stopchildcreatedchocolate and #childrenaren’tworkersoradults This infographic photo is by Bureau of International Labor Affairs and U.S Department of Labor. https://www.instagram.com/p/B408oadBsNP/?igshid=1olht3br75q9f

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This young boy Abou Ouedrago age 15, after many long days of hard work can’t have a proper sleep. This young boy has to sleep out in a hut in the woods with other things that can endanger his life. #stopchildlabor and #helpchildreninafrica and #childrenaren’tworkersoradults This photo is by Salwan Georges for the Washington Post. https://www.instagram.com/p/B40-S8dhMCGZ31_9tESbI2hJYBISTj7dqAavdA0/?igshid=1u05orax1nbc0

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This picture shows these young children taking a break from their long periods of working. These children are going for a clean glass of water but sadly the water is collected in a bucket from the local pond which could be dirty. Even after their long effort in working these children still are treated unfairly. #stopchildlabour and #cleanwatermatters and #childrenaren’tworkersoradults This photo is by Salwan Georges for the Washington Post. https://www.instagram.com/p/B409cfAhGciNl4c9sgxUwOeK9aaQQb5WZop7xo0/?igshid=1j8gdv026qsk8

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This infographic photo shows about our cocoa being produced in Ghana Cote d’Ivoire and how many children are working in these hazardous condition. #stopchildlabour and #bemoreawareofothers and #childrenaren’tworkersoradults The infographic image is by the U.S Department of Labor and the Bureau of International Labor Affairs. (at Ghana) https://www.instagram.com/p/B400vJRBLQdhZmqpWQr57FeXRYeoTlprM47p8Q0/?igshid=d5drckzdplxw