Brochure - Children In Developing Countries

 Child labour for children 12-14 years of age is considered being 14 hours of economic labour- in Canada, The Employment Act does not allow an individual to work until the age of 16 and 8 hours is the max, including breaks.

Important Facts About child Labour

 The United Nations, Convention on the Rights of the Child, along with United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund entail that every child is entitled to protection of their rights to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.

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The current move to abolish child labour needs to be revamped- why children engage in labour needs to be addressed.

o Necessity of Child Labourfamilies need to keep as many family members working as possible to ensure income security and survival.

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241 million children engage in child labourout of that number 178 million engage in hazardous forms of child labour

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Includes: prostitution, forced recruitment, use in armed conflict

 Child labourers earn a wage of less than Wright $1- $2Ebony per day (way below the world

 Education Definition  121 million children don’t have education 

72 million in primary school age did not attend school in 2007 o 57% were girls

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Reasons: o They come from Low income families o Poverty o Children need to work for survival

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How to break the cycle of poverty with education? o Educated mothers tend to push their children for higher education o Governments need to spend in Carolina Laviola

By Adriana Munoz, Carolina Laviola, Ebony Wright, Kandi Xiu Feng Xiao

We define children in the developing world as children concentrated in the areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia mostly. They are not equally poor. The social classes contrast sharply. High class children usually come from military and/or politically involved families which make up a minority. The rest of the children live close to the poverty line. They either work to survive, live on the street, have been abandoned due to sickness, war, poverty. Then there are those who are members or victims of civil conflicts. Due to these circumstances, most of them have little or no access to education and health care.

 1,633 million children in developing 

countries. 4% of them are uprooted

 The reasons why they become uprooted children? 1. Flee from war and persecutions 2. Natural disasters 3. Country’s development project

 How many organizations are helping? What are the helps they provide? Is it enough?

 What are the options of 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

refugee children? How about displaced children? Immigrate to other countries Adoption Return Willing to displaced Child labours Child soldiers

 What kind of risks both 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

groups of children are facing? Abuse Kidnap Selling business Violence Drugs…

 9.7 million under 5 children have died so 

far in 2008 Sub-Saharan Africa holds the largest numbers

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Silent Killers:

 4 million babies die 

1.66 Billion children in the Developing World

 What are the solutions for the problems?

Child in Sudan

The Problem in Numbers  Poverty definition: Financial Poverty  Deprivation.  1 billion live in poverty. o 90% from developing countries o 640 Million have no shelter o 400 million have no drinkable water o 270 million have no health care

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before 1 month Reasons: not immunized. Causes malaria, pneumonia, measles, diarrhea The cycle of malnutrition

HIV/Aids – How it is spread among children.  G8 summit – slow solutions, lack of funds  Hospitals 15 million Aids Orphans  Problems in the  SAP’s affecting the Public Health System  No media coverage The Possible Solutions  NGO’s + Civil Society  UN Countdown to 2015  The need to break “business-as-usual” 

1. $ 2. Education 3. Peace Kandi Xiu Feng Xiao

Adriana Munoz