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Everyday, every hour, every minute, a new child comes to the world. He opens his eyes, and sees a big world, full of people, having different lives, different jobs and different destinies. He opens his eyes to see a world full of motion and danger, afraid of what his destiny in such a world would be, and what picture would it draw for his future.

He may have no father, no mother, no sister or a brother, no one to help him, no one to take his hand and shows him the right way. He may be alone in that wide world with all its wildness and business, in such a world he might have nothing to do but work in his childhood to earn his living and to survive.

YES, "Work in his childhood"!!! What a small sentence to say while in its meaning it may change the life of many children, referring to the great suffering that many children now in our society face.

No one would say that children should suffer.
No one would say that children should work.

But who will step forward and stop this. It was recognised that ending the suffering of the children must be one of human's priorities, and this problem demands immediate attention and action.

Governments, organisations, and individuals should union together to protect those suffering children and to try to save those miserable children's lives, and to make a great difference in their future changing it to the best future ever known, because helping those children doesn't help them alone but it helps the country for they are the hope for all countries to grow and to build better future.

So will anyone hear my call and try to do even a small part in helping our nation's future, by helping those innocent children and saving them from walking in the way of no return. So, is there an answer?

Ahmed Mohamed Gaber
Age: 14
E.B.S. Alexandria. Egypt

Child labour,a topic which imposes itself in our daily life. A topic which is very important our Egyptian society and in some of the modern societies. Every day we listen to the radio and watch televisions that children die because of shortage of food or tough weather.

These children are usually from poor and ignorant families. They are treated in a very cruelly and badly manner. They are always neglected and ignored. They live without a will or an aim of life, which take them to drugs or to commit suicide. Illiteracy represents about 15 % of the Egyptian population and that is a very high percentage, so more than 5 million Egyptians are in the street without cloth or food or even education. Some of these children turn into thieves or something in that way.

In Africa, there are many examples and faces of child labour. Some of them have no even a place to live in because of the wars there, they turn into slaves.

In the past, there were many faces of child labour, but now because of technology and the chart that declares the child's rights, their percentage is decreasing.

No one can neglect or forget the role of our government in helping the children and to protect them from dying in the streets as a result of hunger and being lost. We are still fighting against the child labour by our selves, but mostly still we want some more local rules and laws and time to be like the advanced countries in protecting the children.

Finally, A message is sent to all the people not to let their children be uneducated and to work hard to save their children from dark and horrible destiny.

Aser Mohamed Refaat

Fight against children labour, an important message to the whole world and to all the people. This case is one of the most serious cases that matter posterity.

Children are our hopes of the future for making advanced civilization, they are the glory that should eradicate linger and ignorance of our world.

But now, people don't give any attentions for child, they force children to work in very hard jobs, they don't give them the chance for education, when a boy or a girl makes a mistake they beat them with all cruelty, they consider them like horses and cows; even these animals are treated better than that.

They don't respect any of the children's rights.

This bad treatment spreads vagrancy of children until they become thieves, swindlers and bad people.

Is this a correct behavior? Is this the right way that will make a good future? Now I ask all governments and all the world's populations to put their attention on this case by making education a priority in every society.

Governments must put strict laws that prevent children's labour and punish anyone who breaks these laws.

Funds should be raised to help these poor children that were forced to work by their hard lives and poverty, so that children could be able to live a proper life and grow up and work hard for our future.

Hazem Ahmed Rashed

Child labour in its worst form is everyone's responsibility. It is not the fault of a single parent, employer or country that some children are suffering today. We are one human family and must all look after each other.

Everyone can help solve this problem whether young or old. You can play your role, and here are some of the things every one can do:

Being personally involved in helping children you see being exploited or treated unfairly. Learn more about worst child labour and laws against them. Discuss the problem openly in your community and decide specific actions to take. Be generous with and help organizations working to protect children. Bring other concerned people together to form a united group fighting against the problem of child labour. Ask your government's representatives to take immediate action to end the worst forms of child labour, and provide education for children. Raise funds to support the rehabilitation and education of children freed from the worst forms of child labour. Tell business men that you won't buy anything from them if they exploit children. Pledge to continue your efforts until every child enjoys their right to a childhood.

All of the previous are some of the things everyone can do to fight against child labour, knowing that children have played a crucial role in the fight against child exploitation in the worst forms of child labour.

I want to say that no one says or will say that children should suffer or work fourteen hours daily or more.

I also want to ask a question:
Who will step forward to stop this?!

Karim Mahmoud Ahmed Aly
Age: 14
E.B.S, Alexandria, Egypt.

This story is about a child who was born in a poor ignorant family .His father was a labourer and his mother was a housewife. He had three brothers and sisters. They lived in a very simple house.

His father worked hard to provide them. However, this child was very careless about his education, and his parents did not follow him regularly. He had bad friends at school who encouraged him to escape from school. These bad friends behaved very badly, and they corrupted him. They taught him bad habits. He always went out and spent most of his time with them. He did not find any time for studying his lessons.

As an expected result for this, he got low marks by the end of the years and failed. His father advised him not to go out with these bad friends, behave well and study hard so that he could pass the next exam, but he did not care. Therefore, his father decided not to send him to school and to send him to a mechanic's, in order to save money, and at the same time to get money and earn his living.

There he was in bad conditions. He had to work hard from 8 o'clock to 6 o'clock daily, and he had health problems. He was exposed to many dangers during his work. He was treated badly by the mechanic; who used to ask him many severe jobs that he could not carry out. He used to talk to him loudly and shout at him. He used to be aggressive and deal with him roughly. Therefore, this child was always suffering, but he could not complain. He felt very sorry for leaving school and going in this way, he remembered his father's advice and he wished that he could obey him.

One day he was surprised when one of his old friends at school came to the mechanic's with his father and saw him in very dirty clothes with dirty hands, he felt very shameful and he could not sleep that night. In the next morning, he did not go to his work, and he decided to apologize to his father and ask him to forgive him and help him to return back to school, promising that he would never escape from it, study hard and avoid bad friends and try to compensate what he had lost.

Finally, he passed the exam and got high marks. His parents became pleased with him, but he would never forget the bad, difficult time he spent in the mechanic's, and he decided to be a mechanical engineer in the future.

Ahmed Alaa Mohamed Abd El Aziz
Age: 14 years
El Nasr Boys School, Alexandria, Egypt

There is no doubt that the human interacts with the surrounding environment. This happened with Mohamed the hero of the story. Mohamed was young, ambitious, obedient, lawful and dutiful boy.

But fate changed his life completely when he was ten years old his father died leaving no wealth or money for the big family. Mohamed left his school & started to work at grocery's. He started to earn money for the big family & he thought that he would earn money; he started to be one of the best workers at the grocery's.

Fate is some times very hard, fate didn't leave him alone ,his mother was helping him but she died.

At this time his sisters, brothers weren't grown up enough to work but their needs increased by the increase of their ages. After one year he could not complete & he stole the money at the grocery's and he ended his life as a prisoner. We don't give him excuses because humans must face problems; human has to follow his religion; the good manners.
But I want to say that government has to save money for the poor families; to stop child labour.

Omier Magdy El_Said

Child labour, a crime against society.

He was born in a humble family. His father who was the breadwinner of the family is a simple worker. He couldn't earn much money, but only a few pounds. He couldn't provide for such a big family that consists of seven children and their mother. They couldn't find their daily food.

So he had to work and also his brother had to while they are in an early age to help their poor father to provide for the family. They didn't think about having education. While he was working he could see the children of his age playing and having fun and returning back from their schools happily. He was crying lonely but no one heard him. He was reviling the conditions that had taken his childhood from him.

He grudged the society. All of this makes a big problem. These conditions might push anyone to do crimes or to addict drugs. This story is repeated in our society, due to the overpopulation and also due to poverty.

Our government pays a great attention to education for all of the ages to control such a problem it also cares about children by preventing their working while they are in their early age. Our government's target is to create a new generation having good health and high spirits that make them overcome the challenges of the future and get up with their country.

Shady Ahmed El - Sayed
Age: 14
E.B.S, Alexandria, Egypt

The world talks about a superior cause from the very important causes that we see in our society today, and I see that all the priority is given to it. It is child labour.

This cause, which may menace the progress and make the civilization inaccessible, also it, threatens the political economy of the nations.

Child labour the problem that was fabricated many years ago and we see its dangerous following. It appears in our world today in the ugly shape of the callously exploitation of children in severe strict works and in sometimes as a slavery with very insignificant salaries or wages and occasionally the inhumanity extends to employ children without any pays, where is justice?

It is from the humankind's top rights to stop exploitation of children and the severe works they do.

But before we review the means of treatment of the problem we must know its jeopardy and how it takes place in our life.

This phenomenon spreads in the third world with a noticeable appearance. It is some thing rare in the modern societies, the ailment of the family provider and the ignorant thinking and lack of the urban areas as in random poor districts, plus the superfluity of the people due to illiteracy which extends to force the children to work 14 hours a day-under atrocious circumstances and without feeling the innocence of these angles-under the pretence to support the income of the family, also the way of education, its efficiency and teachers who fizzle the students leads to deserting of them preferring work.

When all these elements combines together, it makes a nasty mix leads to this problem. It is shocking to see that in an era of such tremendous material and technological advancement.

The influence of this cause can't be neglected, its very dangerous on the civilized world, it may destroy the society. When a child works in a very young age, the work harms him psychical and bodily.

It harms his body and his ability to work in the future because this age is specified for protection and care about him/her and all the researches have been made about this matter proved how much the harm would be in the future due to working in young age and also because the body didn't complete its growth completely yet.

The psychical influence may be greater than the influence on the body, because that age it must be particularized with upbringing, therefore the absence of well directing from parents leads to a serious psychical disease which can't be treated. When the two parts-psychical and bodily-join together they create a generation of youths who can't do any benefits to the society because neither the first part is good nor the second part is valid to work and that we call it frustration of youth and plus all this the crime rate increases due to psychical troubles inside the body which all lead to underdeveloped low-grade world, and threaten all the progress the human being had reached.

It is found in many different countries in different continents like: Mexico, Argentina, some of African countries, Philippines, some Arab countries as Egypt, although there some in Egypt but it is not widely spread we can see some facts about child labour in Egypt:

In 1995 there were 850,000 economically active children, 263,000 girls and 587,000boys between the ages of 10-14. A comprehensive study prepared by the government's statistical agency in 1988 indicated that 1,309,000 children between the ages of 6 and 14 are employed. Nearly 78% of working children are in agricultural sector.

For the year 2000 there were 752,000 economical active children between the ages of 10-14 representing 9.25% of this age group. Of these children 271,000 are girls and 587,000 are boys. For this we must dedicate all our ability for killing this cause, by the role of the governments to increase the awareness of the people by the dangerous of forcing children to work in young age and the superfluity of the population through the mass media, increasing the chances of education and subsidy it, erasing the illiteracy, crimination of the child labor, and the role of the family in concerning with the roles of the government and cooperate with it and care with the upbringing of children.

Shehab El-Din Zakaria
Age:14
E.B.S, Alexandria, Egypt.