Child Slavery
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Child Slaves: SUDAN

  

  theatlantic.com                                                                       infoplease.com

 

 

 

 

"Jesus called a little child...

 

Brick Factory: INDIA

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....and made him stand where they could all see him, and said:

 

 

 

 

Enslaved Child Soldier: UGANDA

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"It would be better for a man to have a huge millstone hung round his neck and be drowned in the deepest part of

the sea than to do anything to cause one of these little ones who believe in me to sin."

Matthew 18: 1-2, 6

 

 

 

 

 

Child Cocoa Slaves: WEST AFRICA

 

theworldly.org                                                              www.american.edu

 "The effect of being sold into slave labor has the obvious physical scars from the constant beatings the child receive,

their inhumane living conditions,  and the practical starvation that the farmers impose on them...

 

 

 

 

 

'Blood Diamond' Mine: SIERRA LEONE

 minermulto.com

However, the effects of slavery do not merely affect the physical well-being of the children.

They also suffer from emotional scars...

 

 

 

 

Child Camel Jockeys: DUBAI

antislavery.org

A portrait of a diminutive child camel jockey & his camel at the Nad al Sheba camel racetrack, Dubai, UAE.

UAE. Daoud Khan

 

 

 

Carpet Slaves: INDIA

 mythinglinks.org         veganpeace.com     eco.utex.edu

 

Being a slave is often a process of systematic destruction of a person's mind, body, and spirit...

 

 

 

 

Child Fishing Slaves: GHANA

Wodaabe

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Not only are families separated from each other, but the child slaves become more emotionally isolated...

 

 

 

 

Rescued Granite Miners: NIGERIA

newsimg.bbc.uk

 

Even after they are no longer in slavery, they are more fearful of other people and less confident of themselves.

They also have trouble readjusting to their families...

 

 

 

 

 

Freed Trokosi Shrine Slaves :WEST AFRICA

ecmafrica.org

 

 For the children that are lucky enough to escape, their physical and psychological scars

will need a long time to heal."

 

 

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