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Popsicle Boys and Gardenia Girls p. 2: Why I wrote about child labor in Asia

Raising awareness of child labor is the start of a solution. As children, we perceive our world as the norm. I wrote about being...

Jul 172 min read

Popsicle Boys and Gardenia Girls p. 1

Child labor can take many forms, especially in the Global South. When I lived in the Philippines, fifty percent of the population was 18 or younger (a fact I remember from my missionary dad’s slide presentation). No matter what age, I was eye-level with a lot of children. At 6, I was shoulder-to-shoulder with a village girl—my size, but probably 10 years old—hauling buckets of water for her family. At 8, I was eye-to-eye with the gardenia* girls swarming our taxi window, swee

Jul 103 min read