Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Togo Article

I feel that what's happening in Togo is terrible. There are young girls starting at the age of five years old getting beaten twenty four hours a day just for their owner's entertainment. I think that the organizations that are working on these certain cases are doing a good job, but they need to try to work on more cases, because as the article said, "There are millions of little girls getting enslaved." It's a terrible thought, to think that little children at the age of five years old could get these jobs to pay off family debt, and sometimes they wouldn't even get paid to do the work. I think one way that organizations against child labor could do is try to travel to these villages and search for different private houses where these activities are going on in. Also, I feel that the girls are smart for running away from their masters, because they work all day long and their reward is to be beaten for no apparent reason but for entertainment. This problem is probably targeted in Togo because it's a poor country in Africa where there are no laws against child labor, and the children are so desperate for money that they would do any kind of work to make money. It's a hard subject to try and fix immediately, but at least the private organizations could try to take everything head on.

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