Child Labor Response/Reflection

Child labor is a form of modern slavery. Think of all those children, all 168 million of them, that are deprived of their childhood and freedom. If we do not do anything about this issue, child labor will continue to exist in the world. Poverty is one of the main reasons that child labor occurs. So, to efficiently tackle this problem, we first must deal with the cycle of poverty. There are children in Africa that harvest cocoa to be made into chocolate. Fair trade chocolate is chocolate that does not use child labor in its manufacturing process. Have you ever thought about how a child laborer's life is like? Back breaking, sweaty, hazardous work. 85 million children work in those conditions. We ask you to spread the this issue to your family, friends, neighbors, etc. That is what God would like from our society - to help those who are oppressed and do not have a voice. We have a voice. We need to use that voice to change the world around us. One voice may be tiny and insignificant, but with a thousand voices, the world can hear us clearly. Justice should be brought to this.


Proverbs 21:15
When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

Matthew 19:14
But Jesus said, "let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven."

Forever 21 uses forced child labor in cotton.
http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-forever-21-to-stop-forced-child-labor-in-cotton