Len Morris remembers the experience of filming an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Fourteen-year-old Lesley Achieng, a new student at the Kenyan Schoolhouse program, recently wrote us a letter about her family circumstances and her excitement at being able to go to secondary school. While her adoptive family has been kind to take her in, she misses her siblings and her mom. “It is a fact that I am not a member of this family.”
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Recently, we had World Day Against Child Labor and unfortunately there’s little to celebrate.
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Children often know and practice empathy intuitively… they know when something is amiss or just wrong.
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24-year-old lawyer Amar Lal has seen and felt the pain of child labor. Strictly speaking, child labor runs in the family. In 2021, the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, Amar tells the ILO and world leaders that more needs to be done to end child labor entirely.
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Garment production in India shut down abruptly as a result of Covid 19. Multinational companies who skipped out on their obligations to pay for work already ordered made matters much worse. The Indian government appealed for employers to “be kind” to their desperate employees. Unfortunately, kindness is discretionary.
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When I met Mariela Montez, age ten, she was working with her father picking onions for a penny a pound outside Eagle Pass, Texas.
She had the flu and could barely speak. She had risen at 4am and would work twelve hours…
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When the coronavirus hit Kenya, all schools closed abruptly. Kenyan Schoolhouse kids, from the poorest and most vulnerable of families, were sent home. To help provide emergency food aid, see gofundme.com/f/kenyan-schoolhouse-at-home. Len tells the story of Sylvie and the beginnings of Kenyan Schoolhouse.
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Roy would say, about the behavior of men who put money first, " He wouldn't pay a nickel to see an ant eat a bale of hay."
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Twenty-two years since the Harkin-Engel Protocol, the absolute number of child laborers in cocoa has actually increased. Find out why. Maybe doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the problem?
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Flights to the Northeast are filled with people of color fleeing this government - what the Trump Administration’s anti-immigration policy looks like on the ground - or rather in the air.
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Twenty years of filming the effort to eradicate child labor culminates in the world premiere of Children of Bal Ashram this coming Thursday
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Two exhibitions featuring the work of Media Voices for Children open on Martha’s Vineyard and in Key West.
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Media Voices for Children releases its latest documentary, Children of Bal Ashram. The world premiere of this film will be March 21st at The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival.
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A new interactive photo exhibit featuring the work of U.R. Romano examines the child labor hidden in the supply chains of popular products we all use.
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Today is Universal Children’s Day - a chance to think about what childhood means, and what we owe our children.
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Two photographs - one hundred years apart. Child labor is still a reality in U.S. fields, due to a crucial loophole in the law.
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Ginning up the fears of his base, President Trump fantasizes about a caravan of asylum-seekers “invading” the country, a threat he is apparently prepared to meet by wasting the time and resources of active-duty military personnel. But who are these people really? Drug-dealers and murderers, or families fleeing gang violence?
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