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 mines in Cambodia, in tea plantations in Zimbabwe, or who make glass bracelets in India.
Among the worst forms of child labor is also street work, that is the employment of all those children who, visible in the Asian, Latin American and African metropolises, try to survive by collecting waste to be recycled or by selling food and drinks.
In the city of Dakar alone, the capital of Senegal, 8,000 children live as beggars.
Another face of this tragic reality is the commercial sexual exploitation of minors, which affects one million children every year.
If the various types of child labor can be quantified in some way, one more than others is characterized by invisibility and escapes a statistical evaluation: it is domestic and family work, in which girls are mainly employed.
Whether it is work in the house of others (domestic work) or in one's own home (family work), for girls it often becomes a real form of slavery, which forces them to live in the nightmare of violence and abuse.
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