Child Labor Statistics:
The International Labor Organization:
Facts on Child Labor 2010

• 215 million children under the age of 18 work.

• 115 million children work in hazardous work.

• 62 million children between the ages of 15 and 17 work.

• 60 percent of child laborers work in agriculture.

• Only one in five of these child laborers is paid.

Poverty Statistics:
10.9 million children die every year.
     5 million of those children die due to nutrition related issues.
     Nutrition related illnesses are caused directly by poverty.

The World Bank has estimated that there were 1,345 million poor people
in developing countries
who live on $1.25 a day or less.
worldhunger.org

Because of families living in poverty, many children feel that they must work to help support their families. Whisper also believes that she must work to support her father and brothers.