child labor – Houston Public Media

Rizwana Ruab, 16, attends the ninth grade at one of the schools with Developments in Literacy in Orangi. She is studying biology so she can become a police officer. She spends several hours every day making shoes with her family. She earns on average about 20 U.S. cents an hour.

Reporter's Notebook from Pakistan

Students Pulled Between Work and School In Pakistan

Posted on November 30, 2016 · More than 20 million children in Pakistan don't attend school, which counts for 8 percent of the world's out-of-school population.

Houston Matters

Under the Mango Tree: Preventing Child Labor Trafficking

Posted on February 3, 2015 · Chris Field is the Founder and Executive Director of The Mercy Project, a non-profit working in Ghana to prevent kids from being trafficked into labor in small fishing villages. Field was born in Houston but found his way to College Station where, at 19, he ran for mayor. Later, he started a summer camp, and […]

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Reporter's Notebook from Pakistan

Students Pulled Between Work and School In Pakistan

Houston Matters

Under the Mango Tree: Preventing Child Labor Trafficking

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