Hard Labour - Nicaragua

Third world economies struggling to end child labour

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Nearly half of Nicaragua's population live below the poverty line. It means that working has become part of everyday life for hundreds of thousands of children, as their families struggle to make ends meet.

A group of children smash stones into small pieces, risking blindness as chips of rock fly into the air. Officially, child labour is illegal in Nicaragua and the cooperative leader in one quarry is quick to deny that any children are working there. "It is prohibited for children to work as stone cutters. It's much too risky. Children should go to school, not work." But Anibal, a ten-year-old labourer, tells a different story. He has already spent a year in hospital after he was injured working at the quarry. "A pile of dirt fell from up high. It fell on me and injured my leg." Despite the objections of the Sandinista government, being one of the poorest countries in Latin America leaves families with little choice. Diana Espinoza, the local representative from Save the Children admits it is a very difficult situation: "there's a whole market with child labour at several levels".

A Film By SBS
Distributed By Journeyman Pictures
August 2011

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[TheCoop4400]

Most of you have missed the point. This Story is about showing the world what is happening there. Its not about right or wrong. People need to know or nothing gets fixed. Pull your heads out of your ass for one moment and don't hate on someone for trying to make a difference in the world. What have you done?

[xaibatadada]

so much fucking trouble in this world iyah

[blk24ga]

this is also in my country

[Marionet64]

I live in Managua, and I see kids in the streets every single day, morning, afternoon, and night... whos fault is it..the governments..corrupt motherfuckers...they got money for everything but they dont have for these kids...they say that their government concerns the poor and that the poor rule Nicaragua, they can go FUCK themselves..to see this just sickens me..

[TheCoop4400]

@fkucnts1 And what have you done? except prove that your parents should have been provided with better contraception or abortion plan for you, better yet for you a sack and a lake to put you in straight after your birth.

[fkucnts1]

@TheCoop4400 what have you doen? nothing! so fuck off u hippie stop preachign to everyone on youtube. no one cares about. no one cares abouth the deloping world either. its a useless coutnry, just liek ur useless hahaha u have no voice and when u die no one will remember u. hahhahaha fuck off cunt

[BRYANJONATHAN13]

not having kids is the only solution the rest either getting married or not is rational sorry

[FedupwithR]

@beaverlover22

This is an ill conceived argument used by the anti abortion people. Obviously rich people shouldn't be the only ones to have children, no one is suggesting such an idea, but haven't you noticed that the smaller the family the better each child is treated? The poor don't "produce" more children to earn more money. Children cost money to feed. They produce children because they are deprived of birth control.

[ButherLi55ett]

@denisasitis Everyone that works is exploited, the workers are an exploited class. Wage-slavery is exploitation under capitalism.

[ButherLi55ett]

@denisasitis Everyone that works is exploited, the workers are an exploited class. Wage-slavery is exploitation under capitalism.

[ButherLi55ett]

@FedupwithR The elimination of production for profit and in place production for needs is the answer to poverty and a lot of other nasty features of a capitalist mode of production.