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Child Labor in Nicaragua

By Carmella V. and Pauline S.

Miguel's Story:

  • Began working part time when he was only seven years old
  • Miguel worked more or less 3-4 hours daily and only earned 2 córdobas (US 12 cents) a day
  • Every two weeks his father gives 215 córdobas ($13.53) to his three children who live with their aunt (for food, clothes, school, and medicine)
  • Miguel gets up at 5:30 a.m, attends school from 7:15 a.m.-11:45 a.m. After school, Miguel studies computers at the Children's Club, then from3-5:00 p.m., he helps his father to clean the park.

The life of a child slave in Nicaragua

  • These children work from morning until night, with little to no chance of human interaction
  • They start at an extremely young age, and with no chance for education they will mostly likely remain a laborer for the rest of their lives
  • Many work in the hazardous gold mines in conditions that result in death at a young age
  • Many are forced by their parents to become beggars; others are rented out by their parents to groups of beggars

What the government has done to stop it:

  • Government used its annual salary-setting regulations for the coffee harvests to raise awareness about the laws that protect minors from hazardous work in that sector
  • expanded its collaboration with coffee producers and civil society to protect adolescents and provide children educational opportunities on coffee farms
  • With help from the Ministries of Education and Health, government has helped a small city of Managua keep children in schools
  • Miguel's solution: "governments need to give work to their parents, but pay them well. They should not charge fees for education, so that we can go to school. Parents must motivate us (children) to go to school, and not give us work."

Child Labor in our world today

Child labor

in Nicaragua

But....

  • Plans to combat child labor to protect children have not been fully implemented
  • Programs meant to stop this are insufficient to reach the numbers of children that need help

"The leader in one quarry is quick to deny that children are working there. 'It is prohibited for children to work as stone cutters. It's much too risky. Children should go to school, not work.' But Anibal, a ten-year-old laborer, has already spent a year in the hospital after he was injured working at the quarry. 'A pile of dirt fell from up high. It fell on me and injured my leg.' "

  • Children in Nicaragua are engaged in the worst forms of child labor, especially in agriculture and commercial sexual exploitation, as well as used as child soldiers
  • Work long hours risking injury in tasks such as breeding livestock, crushing stone, mining for gold and collecting mollusks and shellfish
  • According to the International Labour Organization, as of 2010 there are 215 million child laborers between the ages of five and seventeen
  • In many developing nations 30% of their children are engaged in child labor
  • About 1.2 million children are trafficked each year for their services in agriculture, mining, in factories, as sex slaves, and as child soldiers
  • About 70% of child laborers work in agriculture
  • 8.4 million children are involved in slavery, debt bondage, and other forced forms of labor
  • engage in construction, which may require them to carry heavy loads and use dangerous tools
  • Some children scavenge for garbage
  • children are trafficked within Nicaragua for sex tourism, which is reportedly on the rise, and to work as domestic servants

Did you know.....

what YOU can do:

  • 15% of children in Nicaragua aged 5-14 are involved in child labor
  • 53% of secondary school aged girls do not attend secondary school
  • 43.1% of child laborers do not attend school
  • 20,000 children suffer sexual violence, sexual tourism, and remunerated sexual practices
  • In 1986 child soldiers of the CONTRA (anti-communist) army were financed and trained by the CIA to fight the nicaraguan communist government. The Contras had as many as 18,000 fighters

1. Educate yourself

2. Start a group/club focused on helping to eliminate child labor

3. Build school and community knowledge of global child labor issues

4. Educate policy makers into seeing what their doing to children in less developed countries

5. Shift your purchasing power

6. Fundraise as a project to help a less developed country

7. Support organizations, like the Children's Club, in their fight to end child labor

Sources

  • http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?page=country&skip=0&coi=NIC&x=6&y=7
  • http://knowchildlabor.org/true_stories/pdf/ICCLE_MIGUEL_Nicaragua.pdf
  • http://www.intervida.org/en/publications/library/child-labor-and-abuse-in-nicaragua
  • http://www.freethechildren.com/international-programming/where-we-work/nicaragua/
  • http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/06/18/nicaragua-the-continued-struggle-to-end-child-labor/
  • http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/child_labour.aspx
  • http://www.compassion.com/child-advocacy/find-your-voice/quick-facts/child-labor-quick-facts.htm

What is Child Labor?

  • Child labor has no official definition
  • It can be characterized by intense labor, usually starting at an early age, in conditions that are potentially hazardous to the child's physical and mental health
  • The children receive little to no pay for their services and often subject to verbal, physical, and sexual abuse
  • Often have little to no contact with their families and are at the mercy of their employers
  • Many children must work in order to survive and provide for their families

How does this affect our lives?

Child slavery affects the world

  • Many of your clothing and other products were probably made by child slaves
  • Does not directly affect our lives besides the fact that it affects the world economy, but we can still help
  • Hard to imagine these things happening in the U.S., but around the world they happen very frequently
  • Other places do not have the resources that we have to enforce laws
  • Very popular problem with many people and groups working to solve it; however it is not bad for the world's economy or certain major companies
  • In Nicaragua, children are used to mine gold and other precious metals which are sold at extremely high prices; the children may receive as little as $3(U.S.) on a good day of mining
  • The future of the world depends on the children, many of whom do not have the right to education
  • Child labor contributes to a vicious cycle of poverty, because often times children receive little to no pay but continue to work to support their families
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