Child Labor in the Middle East
Social Injustice
Purpose of Project
Modern Day "Mockingbirds"
Social Context: "The Disease"
As well as a lack of income, little access to education has also caused many children to be sent to the workforce at such a young age. The report indicated that Morocco has "one of the highest rates of child labor in the Middle East and North Africa, and one of the lowest rates of school attendance for working children outside of sub-Saharan Africa." (Amina Barakat) The jobs that these children are forced to work do not require skilled abilities. Children that attend school and obtain skills are able to grow up and find a real job that they enjoy. Overall, the more education a child receives, the less likely they will end up in child labor.
Our role in this social injustice is not large but still happening. United States contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan employ foreign workers for cost and security reasons. Contractors like to hire these children to do their company's work because they do not have to pay them as much. Also, the ways that the employees are treating are not monitored as closely as if they were in the United States, which allows for violent behavior in the work places. Although our role may be small, there is one and until these contractors and wars stop, the number of children in the work force will keep rising.
Becoming Atticus Finch
Works Cited
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