Building a School to End Child Labor
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Exploring the old, flooded school building that forced 325 children into unsafe learning conditions, and breaking ground on a massive new facility to keep them off cocoa farms.
- 1. Documents the harsh reality of the overcrowded existing school that flooded during rains, and outlines how constructing a new modern school provides a direct alternative to child labor.
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Because here's the one that they currently go to. How many kids go to school in here. 325. 325 in this one building. Yes. Oh my gosh. When it is raining the place get flooded. So because of that the children don't come. The kids have to travel miles sit in dirty classrooms and learn in sweltering heat. When the kids are in school they're no longer working on cocoa farms which is why higher attendance means less child labor.
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