low wage [ and ] with low safety and high vulnerability to different types of exploitation and abuse,” Hussain Nussrat wrote in an Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission’ s 2011 report.
Furthermore, for the child, it usually means an education foregone or compromised, which creates a vicious circle.
“ It is noticeable that the wages earned by the child laborers do not improve the family’ s economy,” Nussrat wrote. Instead child labor
“ intensifies poverty in the family as their children lose their education opportunities” and grow up to be manual laborers whose families are“ poor forever.”
On every trip to CAI projects,“ it is heartbreaking and painful to see thousands of children, as young as 6, working long hours in intense manual labor,” said CAI Co-Founder Greg Mortenson.“ Most parents, especially women, prefer to have their children go to school. But the prohibitive factors are often complex. There is grinding poverty, marginalization of girls, overpopulation and religious, societal and cultural pressures to factor in.
“ Most tragically, the global community is failing in its commitment to educate children. According to the UN, progress towards universal education slackened around 2006-2007 and there were 121 million children still out of school in 2012,” he said.
The perceived need for children to work plays a role in that.
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