Geography and Child Labour

Question 1

What is Geography

Answer 1

Geography is the study of the world, how it works, and how people, use and change as they live in it.

Question 2

What are the 5 themes of geography?

Answer 2

1) Place
2) Location
3) Human and Environmental Interaction
4) Human Movement
5) Region

Question 3

To what extent does child labour exist today?

Answer 3

A child can work up to 14 hours a day, 7 days a week with little or no amount of rest, food and water. 218 million children aged 5 - 17 are involved in child labor worldwide.

Question 4

Examples of groups that fight against child labour.

Answer 4

1) ILO(International Labour Organization) organises a special day every year where they encourage startup organisations to “join with us and add your voice to the worldwide movement against child labour.”.
2) NCLC(National Child Labour Committee) “the mission of promoting the rights, dignity, well-being and education of children and youth as they relate to work and working.”

Question 5

What might you be able to do to contribute to the global efforts to eliminate child labour?

Answer 5

Think locally first. It’s best to start small. Go to a local organisation and start volunteering. If you don’t have the time, then donate. If you want to help at a global scale, I personally think that you SHOULDN’T donate to big organisations such as the UN, because you never know where your money goes. You should VOLUNTEER. Then you know that your time has gone to a good cause.

Question 6

What situations help to continue child labour?

Answer 6

1) In many cultures, child labour is looked at as normal. There is nothing wrong with it. These people don’t understand the burden their children go through.
2) Debt bondage. When a poor family has borrowed money they can’t repay, they send their child to work.
3) When there is a war raging and many of the soldiers are wounded, the government recruits children to serve, because their lives aren’t nearly as valuable as an adults.

Question 7

Adequate Nutrition

Answer 7

The right amount of food or nourishment a human being needs in order to be healthy.

Question 8

Safe Drinking Water

Answer 8

Water that is safe enough to drink and be used to prepare food.

Question 9

Decent sanitation Facilities

Answer 9

Having adequate sewage disposal, provision of clean water to bathe, and basic health facilities close-by.

Question 10

Health-Care Services

Answer 10

The provision of help from doctors, dentists, psychologists, to individuals.

Question 11

Shelter

Answer 11

A structure that covers or protects people or things; a home

Question 12

Education

Answer 12

The process of receiving or giving knowledge, especially at a school or university.

Question 13

Information

Answer 13

Knowledge that you get about someone or something; facts

Question 14

Deprivation

Answer 14

The state of lacking something that an individual needs in order to survive

Question 15

Child Labour

Answer 15

Employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend school, and is mentally, physically, socially or mortally dangerous.

Question 16

Slavery

Answer 16

One person is owned and made to work without any pay.

Question 17

Salary/wage

Answer 17

A fixed regular payment that a worker is paid based on number of hours, or day they have worked

Question 18

Illicit

Answer 18

Not allowed by law; illegal

Question 19

Global Trade

Answer 19

Exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories.

Question 20

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 20

An international document that states basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled to.

Question 21

Oceans and Continents

Answer 21

Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean

North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica

Question 22

The 4 Worst Forms of Child Labour

Answer 22

Slavery and other similar issues(trafficking)

Sexual exploitation(child prostitution)

Involvement of children in illicit activities(drug dealing

Work which is likely to harm the health safety or morals of a child(mining)

Question 23

The 4 Worst Forms of Child Labour

Answer 23

Slavery and other similar issues(trafficking)

Sexual exploitation(child prostitution)

Involvement of children in illicit activities(drug dealing

Work which is likely to harm the health safety or morals of a child(mining)

Question 24

Child Trafficking

Answer 24

Illegal trading of children for labour or sexual exploitation.

Question 25

Debt Bondage

Answer 25

Forced labour, where work is exchanged to pay loans that people cannot pay of with money.

Question 26

Serfdom

Answer 26

When a person is forced to live on another’s land.