Child workers of the Americas

From: NACLA Report on the Americas | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The need for an extra family wage earner has driven millions of families to pull their children out of

school and put them to work.

By 6:00 a.m. in the market of San Pedro Sula Honduras, horses are hauling carts loaded with pineapples, bananas and vegetables to the market stalls, sending up sweet smells of pineapple, coriander and rain from last night's thunderstorm. As the traffic builds up, smog starts to clog the dawn sky. The first school uniforms appear. On the corner two small girls, aged perhaps five or six, are collating the newspaper supplements ready for sale. Everyone is chewing ...

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