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Dangerous child Labour


These days young children are expected to help their family to get enough money to survive. Their jobs are very exhausting and extremely dangerous. They have few safety rules and that leads them into quite difficult situations. They have to work long hours in dreadful circumstances with a low paying. In these situations it often happen accidents that can take the children’s lives away.

Many of the children’s jobs are often in the coalmines. Their work here is to cut and move coal. Some of the youngest children work as “trappers” who works trap doors. This means that they sit in a hollowed hole and drag in a string that is fastened to the door. They do this when they hear that the coal wagons are on their way. In the last time there have been some serious accidents; while the children are shifting coal, many of them get stuck in the tunnels and small shafts, forever. Roofs can also cave in and big explosions can happen. Another danger is when they light up the coalmines with candles. This is the only source of lighting and it often ends up with setting the whole mine on fire. The only way in and out is down the narrow holes. Because of this, many children don’t get the time to get out before it is too late.

Children that are working in cotton mills got a lot of hard work with cleaning the machines. They have to climb under the factory machines to retrieve cotton bobbins. While they are doing this, they can get caught under the violent machines and die. Many children also get killed because their hair gets fixed into the machine. Even some children fell asleep and drop into the factory machines.

Chimney sweeps is a job that many young children have. They have to go up chimneys and sweep them clean. The soot goes into their cuts on their bodies and also into their lungs.

Children get sick by working. The factories and brick works are very congested and have an unhealthy ventilate. The children can get painful lung diseases as for example black lungs. Many have already died because they have been breathing in the chemical called phosphorous.

How long will it take for the government to see that a working child is wrong? Especially when the work is as dangerous as it is. Instead they believe that people are going to be left alone with no protection. They think it is right to send children away to earn money for their family. Who will set the foot down and work for better days for the poor children? They suffer health problems and set their lives on play, something that they absolutely not deserve. We hope at least the work for children gets safer, so that they don’t need to be afraid of loosing their life while they are working.