Dorothee
Germany
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>Knowing very well what I’m into the subject of child-labor my boyfriend Jörn gave me a prospect as present that belongs to the “US Department of Labor” and for the most part is about goods produced by child-laborers. He even asked experts to hear whether or not the information given here was still current. Anyway the prospect says that by smoking you actually support child-labor as Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, Malawi, Lebanon, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia – many of which are “least developed countries” make use of child-laborers in their production of tobacco. This may be useful information if you live in one of the countries where they exchange gifts of Twelfth Day, if one of your relatives or acquaintances is a smoker and if you don’t have any idea yet what to offer him or her. In many parts of Germany and I guess in many parts of the entire Christian world it is common for shops to sell and for people to buy and eat typical Christmas food like “German lebkuchen” or marzipan-potatoes until Twelfth Day. What according to my experience with friends and relatives several people seem to be unaware of is that “German lebkuchen” contains cocoa which is a product known for child-laborers being involved in its production. Marzipan-potatoes are another very similar case as judging by what I heard only many people seem to be unaware of the fact that some enterprises producing marzipan also use cocoa as an ingredient as well as palm oil. The first being known for child-laborers often being involved in its production and the second being known for peasants causing deforestation of the rainforest – often chasing away natives in the process – to be able to grow even more palm-oil-producing palm-plantations. >Just like in previous years the German and protestant organization “Brot für die Welt” criticizes that each year Germans waste 100 millions of dollars on firework while at the same time complaining that they allegedly neither have the money to buy the more sustainable organic food-products nor the income to give at least some small financial support to the development aid. “Brot für die Welt” says that besides by buying firework we may support child-labor as not only Chinese firework-producing factories are using child-laborers, but some sorts of firework also require material that is won by mining – perhaps even by mining in countries where miners still depend on child-laborers.
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Re-upload: On the website “http://www.swisscontact.ch/english/pages/PR/PR.php?navanchor=2110003” you get informed about different projects to help the developing world and you’ll even be given the chance of getting involved. A lot of families over there are so poor that they have to send their children to work instead of sending them to school, which would be to expensive anyway. If you want to learn about two organizations that help them, then you should visit the following websites: “http://www.help-alliance.com/en/about-us/” and “http://www.staesa.org/countries_eng.html”. There you’ll even be given the chance of getting involved.
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