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

Take the first steps into activism with this comprehensive middle grade guide that empowers readers to choose and become knowledgeable in a cause they are most passionate to reform, and to create meaningful change through learning what's already been accomplished--and what can still be done. Getting involved can be an overwhelming prospect, but this guide provides readers with tools to become informed and effective activists with an accessible approach offering hope and perspective. From Black Lives Matter and light pollution to climate change and healthcare equity for all, the book leads readers through an overview of issues, an essential human rights background, and stories of how other young activists tackle local, national, and international problems. Readers will discover a multitude of ways to build change and learn that every contribution matters.

The inspiring story of Kailash Satyarthi, whose lifelong battle against child labor garnered him to a Nobel Peace Prize alongside Malala Yousafzai in 2014. "My only aim in life is that every child is free to be a child." Kailash Satyarthi has fought injustice his whole life. As a young boy, he raised money so poor children could attend school. When he was a teen, combatted caste discrimination by sharing a meal with "untouchables." And as an adult, he fought against child labor and for increased education, ultimely rescuing hundreds of thousands of children worldwide. In 2014, he was recognized for his efforts, winning a Nobel Peace Prize alongside Malala Yousafzai. This inspiring picture book shows that anyone can strive for change in their community that make a big difference around the world.

In December of 1994, twelve-year-old Iqbal Masih was honored as a hero. Just two years earlier, he had been a slave, condemned to a lifetime of bonded labor in a Pakistani carpet factory. And five months later, he was dead, murdered in his homeland. Though he is gone, his actions inspired an international campaign of middle-school students and adults that is helping to free and to educate thousands of child laborers. Here is the powerful story of Iqbal's life and death in Pakistan, and of the movement that continues the struggle against child labor today. This book does more than recount Iqbal's own amazing odyssey. Both sobering and inspiring, it shows how we are all implicated in the global practice of child labor, and how we can all work together to end it.

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

A fifteen-year-old Canadian recounts his efforts to better the conditions of child laborers. (1 copy Sora ebook)

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.

Fashion can be fun, but it can also hurt people, animals and the planet. Fashion Forward: Striving for Sustainable Style goes behind the glitz and glamour to explore the social and environmental issues within the fashion industry. It looks at the history of fashion, from why humans started wearing clothes to the birth of consumerism to the explosion of fast fashion and fashion's footprint. The book introduces readers to the innovative people, companies and organizations that are taking positive action on fashion. Kids will discover how to make ethical choices and become fashion heroes for the future. There are easy ways we can help transform the fashion industry and still look stylish at the same time! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

What do you want to be when you grow up? I bet you've been asked that question before. But have you ever thought about why humans work? There are almost 3.5 billion people working in the world today, and that number is growing. In Why Do We Work? author Monique Polak investigates the past, present and future of jobs, including how work has also been shaped by discrimination, privilege and child labor. Meet a variety of working professionals and explore why we have careers, vocations and professions. How is the way we work changing, and what will it look like in the future? The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

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