Child workers

Children plucking chickens

The children get 25 cents for cleaning and preparing each chicken. The business belongs to a woman from another town and she has these children do the cleaning, so that she can afterwards sell the chickens in the market.

The children think they are earning a lot. When their mother sends them to do something, they hope to be paid, so that they can get some money. As children, they don’t have jobs, but they are looking for a way to help out their family.

Poor barefoot girl, carrying wood without a mecapal

A girl went to gather firewood in the bush. We think that she is worried and also sad since she doesn’t have any shoes. She’s tired from walking so much and her head hurts because she is carrying her load without a mecapal; she uses only a rag. Her parents don’t have enough money and this is the reason why she brought her wood from the village to the town to sell.

We hope that the girl can have sandals one day, that she can be neat and clean and that she not have to work like this because it’s too great a burden for her. There should be work appropriate for children her age and the opportunity for this girl to go to school.