Choice+Rationale

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 * Project Choice Rationale**

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 * **One in six children** 5 to 14 years old — about 16 percent of all children in this age group — is involved in child labor in developing countries.
 * In the least developed countries, **30 percent** of all children are engaged in child labor.
 * Worldwide, 126 million children work in hazardous conditions, often enduring beatings, humiliation and sexual violence by their employers.
 * An estimated 1.2 million children — both boys and girls — are trafficked each year into exploitative work in agriculture, mining, factories, armed conflict or commercial sex work.
 *  The highest proportion of child laborers is in sub-Saharan Africa, where **26 percent of children** (49 million) are involved in work. ( Sources: [|www.unicef.org], [|www.ilo.org] , www.crin.org)

Americans would like to believe that dangerous child labor is something that does not happen in our country however that is not the case. As many as 500,000 children and teenagers toil in agriculture, an industry consistently ranked as one of the most dangerous industries in America. Last year, 12 of the 16 children under age 16 who suffered fatal occupational injuries worked in crop production, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Only through education, compassion, and development of a social responsibility toward others in our global community with students develop and work to improve the world in which they live Our students will be able to directly relate when they discover the injustices suffered by their peers all over the world. Students will discover that they can be consumers who buy socially responsible products, start and or participate in corporate responsibility letter-writing campaigns, launch a consumer awareness petition project, educate teen workers about their rights and/or write a blog to improve the current situation. All of the aforementioned facts and reasons are the rationale behind Team D's choosing this particular global service-learning project.