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Teaching children about forced child labor is a tough. While it happens, in America it is rarely seen when we are out and about. Plus, parents don’t usually want to scare their kids. The topic of forced child labor is scary – that it happens and the means used to keep children enslaved are brutal. However, our children are usually better able to empathize than we as adults are. A good resource for engaging children in the topic of forced … Continue reading
This post was written by Suzanne, mother of 2 boys, and Content Specialist for Shop to Stop Slavery. Just last week on our way back from a kayaking trip, we stopped at a Chinese take-out for dinner. As we were waiting next to the drive-through window for our order to be prepared, an 8 year old boy came to the window in the employee section, to check out the colorful kayaks sitting on top of our mini-van. Of course, I … Continue reading
Did you know that the beautiful handmade wool rugs that you admire could be tarnished with child labor and slavery? Child labor in the handmade rug industry has been rampant for years. Over 250,000 children work in obscurity creating handmade wool rugs, sitting 18 hours a day at a carpet loom. Many in the western hemisphere justify child labor as increased wages for poor families; however, child labor does not solve the poverty issue for families. It actually creates a … Continue reading
Original post by Lindsay Sullivan of SET Boutique on July 13, 2011 Image: scottchan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I am a huge fan of cotton. I always have been. It reminds me of clean, crisp laundry on a breezy summer day. Unfortunately the reality is that cotton harvesting can be quite detrimental to the environment and to human rights. The use of pesticides is toxic for the soil, ground water, and the people who inhale it. Organic cotton eliminates pesticides, but cotton … Continue reading
