FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOUR

My name is Natia Lobzhanidze. I'm from Georgia, Rustavi-town. I am a girl, 13 years old and I'm student of open school "Zari". (Bell)

In the world are many children. All of them want to live in peace and among good, freedom people, who are very kindly to them. Little children must be defending from wars. Many people thinks, that if they are grown-ups, they can labor children to work very hard.

I want to tell you one story about this: My summer holidays very often I spend in the village. One day, when I was going to go to the river, I saw a little boy, who was about 7. He was crying, because an old man was beating him with the whip. I couldn't look how the man did this, but I came near him and asked, why did he this. The man said to me, that a boy, whom he beat, was his son. So, he could do to him everything what he wanted. But a boy said, that he worked in the field very hard every day from morning till evening. But one day he didn't work there and had gone to play football.

I was surprised and said to this man, that he hadn't to do this, because a child is a free human like him. At that moment a woman called to the boy and he ran home. An old man followed him.

I told you this, because there are many times such situations and I want to say to everybody and to every human: "Let defend children from labor, don't beat them, talk to them like grown-ups, listen to their ideas, because they are our future".

Natia Lobzhanidze