Child Labour

Child Labour

Companies like Nestle, Hershey’s and Microsoft and Apple are still buying the resource they need from places that use child labour, child labour is the employment of children in an industry of business. Coco is needed to make chocolate and rare minerals that are used in smart-phones batteries. A lot of these young kids want an education and want to take part in a daily task that school provides. Many of these kids are usually small and can reach dangerous parts of the mines. There are an estimated around 132 million children under 15 years of age working around the world. Most child workers can be found in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. But child labour today is not restricted to developing countries. A lot of developing countries think that child labour is needed to be successful.




What is child labour?
the use of children in industry or business, especially when illegal or considered inhumane.
Who/where is apart of child labour?

• The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Ethiopia
• India
• Liberia
• Myanmar 
• Nigeria
• Pakistan

Why is child labour used
A lot of developing countries think that child labour is needed to be successful.