Kids Work to Keep Family Alive

“Pick it up; you can work faster than that! There is more work to be done and it isn’t going to get done if you don’t pick up the pace.” This is one of the many sayings children hear on a daily basis when they go to work. Who would ever think families would raise children to be full time workers? No child would rather go to work so the family had enough money rather than play outside with their friends, but they have no choice. This is the life children are forced to live, whether they like it or not.

As I walked into the warehouse I imagined seeing children carrying empty boxes, or even wiping the windows. Instead I walked into children struggling to get the job they have been required to do done. Devastated, depressed, overworked and malnourished children overloaded with things we take for advantage on a daily basis. Over two million children are ignored from the helpless pain they go through every day to satisfy adults needs and wants. Many of the children do not even make it to see another day because they work an abundant amount of hours nonstop suffering.

Children in these warehouses and factories are doing would many American citizens would call a “man’s job”. Tonight as you begin to prepare for bed, someone will begin a night shift to make the newspaper you will read tomorrow. The next time you go out to buy a toy your kid has worked all year for, question who made it. Everything you buy, or use all of it is made by children.

The children are competitors to the moms and dads who complain about the minimum wages they are receiving. Children are targets in many workplaces because of their size, lack of power and most importantly their salary. Children are being forced into workplaces but cannot even read or write. In the bad air, noise and someone breathing over the kids shoulder to make sure there is no mistakes made the children find it hard to get the job done.

The country has come together to wipe the tears of the two million children who cry...