Teens Against Child Labor
Brody Cordon
I am a sophomore at Holliston High School. I play soccer for the Holliston varsity team with Bryan Tabe. We both were interested in the issue of child labor which is why we decided to base our project around it.
Bryan Tabe
I'm a sophomore at Holliston High School and I play soccer on the varsity team with Brody Cordon. My partner and I both had an interest in the issue of child labor which is why we decided to pursue the topic for our project.
Fast Facts and Statistics:
About 70% of children working in child labor work in agriculture - farmstock and livestock herding
under the Fair Labor Standards Act, students are allowed to work until 7 pm
Many kids in child labor often cannot attend school meaning they don't get the same opportunity that kids at school get
The number of minors employed in child labor is up 37% from the previous year.
In 2020, 63 million girls and 97 million boys were in child labor, accounting for about 1 in 10 kids worldwide.
PSACommunity need
We both feel that people need to be more educated on the issue of child labor as it is a major worldwide issue that goes unseen. After doing even more research we learned that nearly 160 million children around the world are engaged in child labor.
Learn more through our PSA and pitch presentation:
Community Help
It's always important that you educate yourself about the issue of child labor and the factors that can lead up to it. People can also provide help by donating to local organizations that focus on the issue of child labor.
The Holliston Pantry Shelf has been helping people in need since 1993 and has been key to our project.
December 13, 2023 - We took this photo with our community partner, Christine Costa, after donating 20 vegetables to the food pantry.
Project Goals
The goal of our project is to create a garden in the greenhouse at Holliston High School. We also want to be able to donate the plants to people in need because research has shown that the leading causes of child labor is poverty and child hunger.
Community Partner
Our community partner at the High School is the science teacher, Mr. Marsh. Mr. Marsh has been helping us along the way providing Bryan and I with space in the greenhouse as well as recommending plants that would be useful for our project. Our other Community partner is Christine Costa who is the produce manager at the Pantry Shelf. She let us donate our plants to the Pantry and she will continue to take care of them until people get them.
We took this photo with our other community partner, Mr. Marsh, who is a science teacher at our school that helped by providing new ideas for our project
Project Progress
We originally started our garden by planting two spinach plants and two lettuce plants. We've since seeded additional varieties in our garden and we ended up with 20 total plants. These new plants consisted of squash, radish, carrot, as well as more lettuce and spinach. We were able to donate these plants to the Holliston Pantry Shelf so that people in need can continue to grow and produce food of their own.
Our garden in the greenhouse after 2 months of watering and adding new plants.
If you would like to learn more about our project, please visit teens.against.child.labor on Instagram or contact us through cordonbro@students.holliston.k12.ma.us and tabebry@students.holliston.k12.ma.us
Where can you Donate?
Global March Against Child Labor - Global March Against Child Labor is an organization that works to implement long-term sustainable initiatives so that children can get out of hazardous labor
World Vision - World Vision is a group that helps kids in labor around the world by providing them with food and shelter as well as a proper education.
Save the Children - Save the Children allows for donations to help kids in child labor and they also promote hands on activities like fundraising through clubs or races/events.