Make a Difference Project: Resources for 6th grade Literature project: Child Labor

Although numerous international treaties and organizations worktirelessly to improve conditions for children, there are still 320million children under the age of sixteen working around the world-- 150 million of those in the most harmful industries

An account of the former Pakistani child labor activist whose life and unexplained murder has brought to the attention of the world the evil of child bondage. Sora EBOOK: Read the entire book online, log in with your school Google Account.

A fifteen-year-old Canadian recounts his efforts to better the conditions of child laborers. CLICK ON BOOK COVER TO READ A PREVIEW OF THE BOOK ONLINE.

Explores the basic needs of human beings, why they are not met in some parts of the world, how war and politics impact human rights, and what can be done to help meet people's basic needs, both through such groups as the United Nations and the efforts of individual citizens.

Yes You Can! Your Guide to Changing the World is great reading and encouragement for every person who wants to make the world a better place. Contains information about human rights defenders, environmental champions, and more.

Canadian-born Craig Kielburger was just twelve years old when he heard his call to action. He read about a Pakistani boy who was forced into labor at age four, became an international figure for child rights by the age of twelve, and then was murdered in his village of Muritke. Craig immediately began researching child labor and children's rights and stirred those around him to action. He is co-founder of Free the Children and the social enterprise Me to We. Your readers will never forget this touching and dramatic story of heroism for children's rights.

For everyone who has ever yearned for a better life and a better world, Craig and Marc Kielburger share a blueprint for personal and social change; with stories drawn from over a decade of their experience as international change-makers, the Kielburgers reveal that a more fulfilling path is ours for the taking when we find the courage to reach out.

All around the world there are charities trying to help vulnerable children experience safer, more enriching lives. This book looks at the efforts of charity workers and volunteers, with exciting stories and case studies, and gives advice on how readers can get involved.

Children in Crisis offers authoritative portraits of young people living, coping, and surviving under some of the most difficult circumstances on the planet today.

This book focuses mainly on enslavement of Africans in American history. The forms of slavery that exist today are examined along with the campaigns and activists protesting them.

Just like Craig Kielburger, another young hero featured in this series, Elizabeth Bloomer's life was forever changed by the young Pakistani boy named Iqbal Masih. Elizabeth was in middle school when Iqbal visited her school. He explained his story and the desperate need for children's rights. Iqbal's life was so brief, but he touched many people before being murdered, including Elizabeth. Now a young adult, she has been a member of her college's Appalachia Service Project, participated in Habitat for Humanity International, and volunteered in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. One of America's youngest spokespersons, she is educating and informing people about child labor and what they can do to help, which will truly inspire your readers.

While our affluent children in America are worrying about what to buy at the mall, there is a whole other reality for thousands of less fortunate children. Jhalak Man Tamang was only ten years old when he was sold into slavery by a family friend. He was sold to a carpet master, who forced him to knot wool rugs on heavy wooden looms. His workdays started at 4 a.m. and went on until 11 p.m. The cold earthen floor of the factory was Jhalak's bed, and his life was only labor, working for zero gain. In 2000, an inspector employed by the RUGMARK organization conducted an inspection in the factory where Jhalak was working. The carpet master had demanded that the children remain hidden so he wouldn't get in trouble for employing child slaves, but Jhalak didn't hide. He stood his ground to make RUGMARK aware that children were being used as slaves. The inspector explained employment laws and offered Jhalak a chance to live at a rehabilitation center sponsored by RUGMARK. Jhalak eagerly accepted, and has now become a leading voice in the fight to end child labor. Give your readers this inspiring biography that may ignite the hero waiting inside all of us.

Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury.From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans, Chocolate Nations reveals the hard economic realities of our favourite sweet. This vivid and gripping exploration of the reasons behind farmer poverty includes the human stories of the producers and traders at the heart of the West African industry. Orla Ryan shows that only a tiny fraction of the cash we pay for a chocolate bar actually makes it back to the farmers, and sheds light on what Fair Trade really means on the ground.Provocative and eye-opening, Chocolate Nations exposes the true story of how the treat we love makes it on to our supermarket shelves.

Poverty and hunger look different around the world. In the United States, poverty can include people living on the streets as well as those who have low-paying jobs and receive formal government assistance. In other parts of the world, those living in poverty may only have a shack and no available jobs. Topics include: Child Labor, Homelessness, Causes and Effects of Climate Change,

Little boys, some as young as 6, spent their long days, not playing or studying, but sorting coal in dusty, loud, and dangerous conditions. Many of these breaker boys worked 10 hours a day, six days a week all for as little as 45 cents a day. Child labor was common in the United States in the 19th century. It took the compelling, heart breaking photographs of Lewis Hine and others to bring the harsh working conditions to light. ....the more than 7,000 photos Hine took of American children at work aroused public sentiment against child labor in a way that no printed page or public lecture could.

Kids on Strike! tells the story of children who stood up for their rights against powerful company owners, from a "turn-out" in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1836 led by eleven-year-old Harriet Hanson to the dramatic strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. By the early 1900s nearly two million children were in the United States work force. Their tiny fingers, strong eyesight, and boundless energy made them perfect employees. But after years and years of working long hours every day under harsh and inhumane conditions, children began to organize and make demands in order to protect themselves. They fought for better wages, fairer housing costs, and safer working environments. Susan Campbell Bartoletti tells of labor strikes led by young people throughout the United States. Illustrated with more than one hundred photographs from newspapers and journals as well as with the work of photographer Lewis Hine, this book provides an inside look at the individual and gripping events that shaped t