We Need to Go to School: Voices of the Rugmark Children

Title: We Need to Go to School: Voices of the Rugmark Children
By: Tanya Roberts-Davis
Summary:

Gr. 5-10. Like Jane Springer"s Listen to Us! The World"s Working Children (1997), this is a moving account of child labor today. Twenty former child carpetweavers in Nepal talk about their lives: the harsh poverty that drove their families to send them to work; the virtual slave labor in the factories, where girls and boys work up to 18 hours a day; and the hope they feel after being freed from their jobs and given the chance to go to school. The children"s stories, poems, and oral accounts are edited and translated, and the voices behind them tend to sound the same. The facts, however, are individual and heartbreaking, and so are the photographs. Roberts-Davis frames the stories with background on Nepal and the Rugmark organization, which works to eliminate exploitative child labor. That Roberts-Davis was only 16 when she went to Nepal"s Rugmark centers in 1999 will inspire student activists, who can use the excellent annotated resources to get involved. - Booklist

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Language: English
Type: Book
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