MPT em Quadrinhos Nº 57 - International Year for the Elimination

<Namaste, I am Marjorie , I am 10. I always helped my mother at home with her work. That’s why, I had never been to school. We produced ink and embroi- deries for a textile factory, supplier for several fa- mous brands.> 9 <We worked between six and seven days a week, six to eight hours a day, but it was not a surprise to see 14-hour workdays.> 10 <We earned around $0.15 an hour, that was way lower than the minimum wage of the country.> <In India, in 2011, there were 4.35 million chil- dren aged between 5 and 14 working 11 . Unicef estimates that they were 10.1 million!> 12 <Only in 2018, 4,545 children abandoned school to work with mica extraction, an element used in the cosmetics and car industry.> <My brother worked on these mines. He passed away in an explosion.> 13 9 - Translated from Hindi. 10 - http://bit.ly/HQ57d 11 - http://bit.ly/HQ57n 12 - http://bit.ly/HQ57h 13 - http://bit.ly/HQ57k 6