The Lion's Pride Volume 11 (Winter 2019) | Page 21

Children Without Childhood: Why We Need to End All Child
Labor
Parisa Afshar
7 years ago, I left my country in hopes of finding a better life and better
economic conditions, but in all these years I've always been thinking of
people in my country. They are getting poorer day by day, and my
country's economic situation worsens. Last year, I went to my country to
visit my family, everything had been terribly worse, many of those I
knew became poorer. But the thing that harassed me, and hurt my heart
was to see the kids who were forced to work because of the poverty of
their families, the children of my home land instead of having fun and
joy, while they were tired and hungry, they had to work to help their
families. Hoping for a day when all the children of the world will be
happy, and no one has to work at a child's age.