MPT em Quadrinhos Nº 57 - International Year for the Elimination

<Ni hao! My name is Lin-Fen , I am 16. My parents lived in a very poor province.> 6 <Since we were young, my siblings and I were con- vinced to look for “ better chances ” in life, leaving home to work and live far away, in nother provinces.> <According to the Chinese legisla- tion, I couldn’t work in a factory, However, it happened all the time.> <When deadlines were shortened and production needed extra workforce, they called us as odd jobbers, like an “internship”, thanks to arrange- ments with educational entities.> 7 <That was quite an exploitation. We used to work 11 hours a day, 6 days a week, mainly nightshifts, producing electronic components for tablets and cellphones or assembling toys for export.> 8 <Of course I resented not being able to study. I valued a lot the little I had learnt, because I knew that Edu- cation transforms and saves lives.> 6 - Translated from Chinese. 7 - http://bit.ly/HQ57b 8 - http://bit.ly/HQ57c 5