No Child for Sale: Stop Child Labour in Sweatshops | World Vision Canada

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Children are often lured or forced to work in illegal sweatshops because they need to help their parents pay for basic necessities such as food, shelter, and clothing.

You may be unknowingly purchasing clothing and other items made by child labourers. Canada’s ongoing connection to child slavery in the apparel industry remains a major concern for World Vision Canada. In countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia children continue to work in dirty, dangerous and degrading conditions, including in the garment, footwear and textile industries.

Trafficking is the world's 3rd most profitable organized crime, after the drug and arms trade. Millions of children – some as young as 6-years old – are working as slaves in sweatshops, on plantations, in dangerous mines and in the sex trade.

Children around the world are forced to work jobs that are dirty, dangerous and degrading. These jobs beat children down physically, emotionally and psychologically. These jobs rob them of the chance to go to school and receive an education.

This is unacceptable and it must stop.

How can you help?

• Canadian consumers should ask retailers to provide information on what they are doing to ensure their products are not made by children. Canadians can also shop ethically by choosing products that are certified to be free of child labour by organizations such as Fairtrade.

• In countries where child labour exists, Canadians can protect a child from exploitation through monthly sponsorship. Through World Vision, Canadians support approx. 21,000 children in Bangladesh and13,000 in Cambodia, keeping them in school and out of factories.

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