My last post was about a child labourer called Iqbal Masih. Articles in the newspaper talked about him. They talked about how brave he was, and about the child labor he protested about. You might thought, 'I want to take actions like him!' but have you really took actions after reading news like him? It looks easy but actually, it's really hard. It is easy to say and argue about things and be negative, but hard to take actions. So today, this post is about a four year old girl named Alex  who did an action about helping others who had cancers like her. 


    Alex was born in 1996 at Pennsylvania. When Alex was just a baby, her parents found a tumor on her back and then the doctor removed it. Two days before Alex's first birthday she was diagnosed with a form of childhood cancer. When Alex was four years old, she was trying to find a cure to help others who had a cancer just like her. Thats when Alex had the idea to start her own lemonade stand. She opened her first lemonade stand in July of 2000. In her first year she raised $2,000. As word spread, Alex started to get more and more donations from people. Alexander Scott has raised more than $900,000 for cancer. Most of the money was from people that donated money to help find a cure for cancer. Her goal was to raise $1,000,000 for cancer. Sadly, she died at the age of 8. But her action keep going on such as schools and communities all around the world making up a lemonade stand to help kids, just like Alex did when she was alive.

(Click here to read about her.)

     

Letter to Iqubal

   

       Dear, Iqbal

    Hello Iqbal. I am Christine.
In our class, we read the article about you and the child labor. I felt 'How could they do that to children!',  'Why can't children have freedom there!' and "Who made that non-sense thing (rule)! Is it a new rule? A law?" I was so angry. How could they treat people like dogs! It was so unfair. How do I know? It is because I can understand your feeling not 100% but some. We did a simulation about working in the factories. It felt like we were treated like dogs! I didn't like that it really felt annoyed too. When they say "Work harder!" and "Hurry up!", it is really annoying. But workings were children's life so that could be... I can't explain. Working for 10 hours and earning 1 Rupees ($0.015) per day! That is impossible! Your right about protesting. I definitely agree with you about the horrible and unfair child labor.
Relating to this child labor, I also have some questions to ask you. "How old were you when you started working?", "Why did you start working?" and "Do you have a sibling?" I know you can't but I was just wondering. I think you were so brave. It is not easy to protest at your age. I really admire your courage. I know that child labor will be completely disappear because of your amazing work. It was a big shame of me not knowing other children on the other side of the world working like this.  When I grow up, I will try to support many of the children in child labor. When you are born again, I hope you are going to born again in a rich and happy family. Have a good time comfortably.

     Sincerely,
            Christine