I was so bothered by this..

These are just hard-to-swallow realities that truly bite...Kids in rich countries like the U.S and Europe are enjoying the best luxuries in entertainment and modern gaming while their counterparts in poor countries like Africa or here in the Philippines are toiling their lives out of their wit, just ironical, isn't it?

I agree. It almost made me consider logging offline.

This is so sad... i don't understand why they would let kids do such a dangerous job... it is like they don't care about the future of their country... just the present... the international world should look into this... i never imagined how an innocent looking gadget have blood of poor children all over it...

Hmm, the only way to avoid this is to live simple... cut down buying as much as possible, especially things such as video games that you don't really need. When I was a kid, we never had any toys. We used to play in the open--water, soil, sand, mud, plants, and so on and so forth. Why is it that modern kids need costly toys? I don't understand.

Cheers and happy mylotting

Hi everlasting,

We all know things like that are happenning every day in many countries. Still we get shocked (for a little while) when we read these news.
The horrible thing is that we will do nothing and we will forget.

I have a persian rug at home. I didn´t buy it but didn´t say no when my brother gave it to me. In fact I was elated. I know those rugs are made by little fingers.

And so many times we get more involved in fighting against cruelty to animals than cruelty to people. I read a little while ago that ex french actress Brigitte Bardot (who has fought for animals all her life) was much against african people in France (from their own ex colonies).

I read the answers of your post and I remembered than when I was a girl we made our balls with rags and made us bead necklaces with corn and melon seeds. And we were happy.

Take care.

I know poor little kids should not be allowed to work, especially with the kind of jobs in mining and stone industries. This practice is still allowed by the government but I thought we already have some laws protecting young people to work.

This really is horrible. And the sad thing is, if you ask American kids to give up these games to save the lives of other children, they would look at you like YOU are crazy. Our kids are entirely TOO materialistic.