Child labour refers to employment of children in any work that deprives children of their child hood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school and that is mentally, physical, socially or morally dangerous and harmful. My talk today is about why child labour should be made illegal. The world’s economy is always growing to provide to the needs of the people on earth. This growth of need has to be supported by a large quantity of manpower or labour force.
Childhood is about playing. It’s about having fun. I remember when I was 6 years old, I could not wait until 4 o’clock to go out and play with the neighbouring kids. Childhood is about going to the playground and playing tag with other kids. It’s about when you eat your vegetables, you get dessert after finishing. And your biggest responsibility was washing your hands before eating. But child labour prevents that from happening. They don’t go to the playground and meet other children and to play. They go to work and meet kids there. But they don’t play, they work! Their biggest responsibility is to go to work and make money so that there is food on the table for their family. And there’s not enough money for dessert.
Do you remember your first day of school? Well I honestly don’t remember. But I do remember that when I was 8 years old, I would wear all my jewellery, my fanciest dress and comb my hair trot downstairs to do my homework. Early in life, we are taught that education is important for our future. We are to read and to write so that maybe we have a chance to be leaders of the world. But as we grow older we take it for granted. How many of us are guilty of going onto Facebook or any other social media sites when we are suppose to be studying? child who is in the working force, doesn’t get this opportunity to go to school. They are not given a chance to learn. They are not given a chance to read. They are not given a chance to write. They are a chance to dream. But that is only a dream....