The greatest gifts you can give to your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
- Denis Waitley
From that quote, if you will base it to whats happening in our society you will really think that yeah it is right. Children now is expose too much in responsibility and independence. Responsibility, because in that early age children is already working to feed their own family knowing that they still have their parents. But because of poverty and they are many in the family parents cannot afford all of them and choose to let them work and help the family. Independence, because they already have work and they can afford themselves without the help of their parents.
So sad but this is really the reality, Reality Check 101.
Nowadays, child labor is normal for us because we even experience that it may not the same to what other children do but we can relate to it. When I say normal, is it really normal that children force to work than to play knowing that they are still a child.
We should never say that it is normal because if we are used to it we can no longer see the bad side to it and as if we will accept the fact that we have nothing to do to stop it and change it.
In our generation, many people are still unconscious of child labor happening in their society even though it's in their own neighborhood. Why? People really don't care so much to other people like what will happen to them afterwards, the H*LL they care?
No matter how we say it, it is already the nature of a person not to care especially if they don't know the person or they cannot get benefits to that person. And the bad thing is that, instead we help them we are the ones pushing them.
Here is the full documentary of Minsan Lang Sila Bata, please do watch. (Disclaimer: I do not own this video. Courtesy: You tube)
Components of a Character: SEE THE TRUTH !!
The documentary shows and proves that child labor exist long long time ago as we expected. There were three different places being presented with different stories to share. First was in Cebu, children were working at the slaughter house for pigs and their salary was the fat of the pigs. Second was in Ormoc, the farmer children they were working at the sugar cane hacienda. Lastly, the Cement boy, they were the ones who carry a sack of cement.
These children are already working in at early age and paid in low amount. They are being abused by people who didn't even care about their future and health. Some of them are not in good conditions but still they chose to work for just a little amount of money.
Parents send them to work for them to help the family, not to school for them to learn and have a brighter future.
Most of them were able to go to school but they stop because of financial problems and
sometimes force to absent for them to help look for money.
It was helpful for us people to know human interest by the help with this kind of film. The documentary was good in terms of content. The technicalities, I won't dwell to that because I know that they don't have the gadget of techonology to make it better. But still they were able to produce a good documentary that tackles issues that us people blind to the truth.!
