The Little Match Girl in today's world
The Little Match Girl in today’s world -Minors Exploitation In the story of the Little Match Girl a little girl finds herself selling matches at a very young age, putting her life at risk in the cold, thus dying frozen. Worldwide, more than 150 million children are trapped in jobs that put their mental and physical health at risk and condemn them to a life without entertainment or education. In the last years the link between child exploitation and climate crisis has been increasingly evident. As we already know, climatic disasters have a greater impact on indigent populations and as a consequence families are more likely to renounce the minor’s education in order to survive of their work. The phenomenon of child labor is concentrated in the poorest areas of the planet, as a by-product of poverty, which also received to reproduce. However, there is no shortage of child workers even in the marginal areas of the North of the world. This is the case of children employed in min...
