Our letter to the Waimea Weekly

W.I.S. students make a difference

Today, students from Room 2, Waimea Intermediate went to the Richmond Mall at lunch time, to raise awareness and gather donations to help fight child labour. They had been studying children’s rights in class this term, and noticed that children involved in child labour are having their rights taken away from them. Children in child labour have no chance of an education, they are beaten and forced to work in factories often to pay off their families’ debts. Everyday a lot of children’s lives are at risk because of the harmful and dangerous jobs they have to do. Just recently, they read about a fireworks factory explosion in India, which killed lots of children working there. In order to stop this happening again, Room 2 decided to take action and try to help those 250 million kids involved in child labour. They made wallets from juice boxes, and sold them for $3 as well as having a coin trail for donations. They raised $176 and they will donate it to www.freethechildren.org which is a website started by a 12-year-old boy who also wanted to break the cycle of child labour. Room 2 students would like to thank all of the people who donated.

Written by Room 2 Students

Check out the photos from our day.

Write a comment about your reaction to our Social Action Trip to the Mall

I was so proud of how well you all did spreading the word!!

 

Juice Boxes Needed

We need as many of these juice boxes as we can get our hands on!! We will turn these juice boxes into something amazing that we can then sell to people. All the profits will go to help prevent children from working in dangerous and hazardous conditions, something they call Child Labour.



 We can make a difference with recycling these boxes.

Bring then to class Monday!!!

Social Action for Child Labour

We have learnt about our rights, and how some children are not having their rights met, like the 250 million children involved in child labour. We know how they get involved in child labour, not by choice but because there in no other option. Now we are planning to put our knowledge into action.

We want to think of a way we can help these poor children. It could be a way to educate people and spread the word, it could be encouraging people to buy free trade products, or fundraising some money to help them. We need your ideas to work out the best way we can MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!


Write down some fantastic ideas that we could use, but be realistic!!

These websites could help:
Free the children
Global Poverty

Child Labour Poems

We wrote poems about child labour, trying to use emotive language to make people realise how hard, dangerous and sad childrens lives can be when they are involved in child labour.

Here are a few examples, let us know what you thought as you read it.

Written by Greer

Written by Sam

Emotive Language for Child Labour

We wrote sentences that would make people feel sorry for children working in child labour. Then we tried to find an image that matched what we were trying to say.
Here are a few examples

By Ella

By Caleb.F

 

 

 

We other emotive sentences could we use to describe 

Child Labour?

Fairtrade

Do you know what this label means??

Go home and look in your kitchen, and see if you have any products with this label, write here what you have. If you can take a photo and send it to me.

Paper Bag Simulation

 Today we had our second experience of being children involved in child labour. We had to make as many paper bags as we could within 10 minutes. If our bags were not made correctly we would have been beaten, we had to make 10 bags if we wanted a meal that night. It was a scary experience as we were worried about being beaten as we made them (even though we knew this would not REALLY happen to us, but it does for them) and no one was able to make 10, the closest was Tori with 7.

Image if this was real. How would you feel doing this every day, from 4am to 8pm and only making$1.25?