To whom it may concern:

Sonia Faleiro, a writer went to northern state
of Bihar, which is an established source of children for trading networks.
Apart from the expected stories of abduction, she also heard about sad and
heart-breaking news about children as young as 10 had begun to sell off themself
to traders, because they could no longer go hungry.
She interviewed 14 year-old Arun Kumar and heard his experience.
Kumar lives with his uncle and two younger siblings in Amni village, where it takes a day to travel by bus from Patna, the Bihar state capital.
She interviewed 14 year-old Arun Kumar and heard his experience.
Kumar lives with his uncle and two younger siblings in Amni village, where it takes a day to travel by bus from Patna, the Bihar state capital.
Two days before they met, Kumar had brought
back home by a local nonprofit organization, supported by Save the Children,
from a rice mill in the state of Haryana. He had been working 18-hour, seven
days a week. Do you think this is reasonable for a child to work that long?
Are they supposed to work that hard at this age? Also, he had been paid
only 800 rupees (a bit less than $20) a month. When the nonprofit organization first
entreated, they threatened the factory owner with a huge crowd of noisy protest
outside his mill. He then argued, “I paid for him”, before finally releasing
Kumar. Do you think this is reasonable? Do you think the factory owner really “owns”
Kumar even though he paid for him?
This was not the first time the organization had sent Kumar back to home. He had been brought back home from another rice mills last year. However, the police were not approached either time, as the police knew they are paid off by traffickers. Is it this fair to the children who are trafficked?
This was not the first time the organization had sent Kumar back to home. He had been brought back home from another rice mills last year. However, the police were not approached either time, as the police knew they are paid off by traffickers. Is it this fair to the children who are trafficked?
Better-off families in Amni eat twice a day. The village has never had
electricity, running water or land to cultivate. There are no opportunities for
education or employment. Poverty has led to feed child labor. India has an
estimated 17 million child laborers. Many of them can be seen in roadside
restaurants, bakeries and car repair shops. Urban Indians assume that these
children are sent to work by their parents to a little extra cash. Do you think it is moral to allow these illegal and immoral trade to exist? The poverty of the country, the children’s needs, the public's blind
eye and the profits of these illegal trades allowed these immoral networks to
exist under India’s child labor laws.

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Works Cited
Faleiro, Sonia. Children Who Sell Themselves.
6 September 2011. Electronic. 1 Marcch 2012.
KHETAN, P. (2012, 4 4). Retrieved from http://pradeepkhetan.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html
Siddiqui, A. A. (2012, 3 4). Patna, Bihar News and Photo Blog. Retrieved from http://viewpatna.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html
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Siddiqui, A. A. (2012, 3 4). Patna, Bihar News and Photo Blog. Retrieved from http://viewpatna.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html