Saturday, August 26, 2006

Africa adds to miserable ranks of child labor

Sub-Saharan Africa remains a huge pit where children as young as 5 or 6 years old work.

It is the difference between eating and going hungry, said one grandmother who works with his grandson in a quarry to earn $3 a week.

While there is a trend worldwide in the decline in child labor, here the figures remain the same as far back a century ago.

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