Save The Children

Following is a disturbing story that I discovered recently. I have also included information from World Vision and UNICEF that is equally disturbing.

Evans Antoine wakes at 7 a.m. and dusts himself off from his night on the floor. While other children in his middle-class neighborhood overlooking the Haitian capital head to school, the 15-year-old puts on toeless sneakers and gets to work washing dishes, scrubbing floors and running errands at the market. He also works in the yard and sometimes wields a scythe in the family's fields.

There is little reward for his toil, except for food and a roof over his head. And often, the quality of his work isn't good enough; his caretakers sometimes hit him with a switch or slap him on the back of the scalp. Once they tied his hands and put a bag over his head before beating him with a stick. This has been his life for the past three years.

WORLD VISION also reports that children from impoverished Cambodian communities --especially girls --are often torn from their families by devious human traffickers who promise them good jobs. Instead they are forced into virtual slavery as prostitutes, street beggars, or laborers. Even those who are reunited with their families remain in danger, as poverty can force them back into demeaning work.

UNICEF estimates that two children per minute … between 1 and 2 million children annually … are trafficked for the purpose of forced labor or sexual exploitation, creating a 10-12 billion dollar business. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that In 2006 14,500 – 17,500 persons were trafficked into the United States..

If you want to stand against injustice, exploitation, and slavery, this would be the place to start.

Help Save The Children! --craig

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