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How many Slaves work for you?
this is a very interesting question and the March2012 issue from Redbook will help you find the answers aswell as show you what we can all do about it. Here are my fav's:
1. Find out how many slaves work for you by answering 11 questions at slaveryfootprint.org. You'll discover how much slavery plays a part in producing the things you buy, from the mica that gives certain eyeshadows their shimmer to the cotton in some T-shirts — some raw materials are mined or picked by children as young as 6. "By understanding just how big the problem is, we can start demanding that companies are accountable for who's mining their products and working in their factories," says Amy Nyquist, a 37-year-old mom of two who helped create the tool.
2. Educate a freed child slave in East India for one year. All it takes is giving up a $3 latte once a week for 52 weeks and pledging it to the charity Mercy 29's Lattes for Legacies program (mercy29.org/lattesforlegacies.html). Since 2009, the group has negotiated the release of 380 children from India's quarries, where they worked 12-hour days extracting slate and marble.
3. Scan the barcodes of your favorite products using the Free2Work smartphone app to find out which companies are working to eliminate forced labor from their supply chains. Not For Sale, the nonprofit behind the app, has graded more than 300 brands, which include jewelry, electronics, and even chocolate.
4. Give whatever you can to Save the Children (savethechildren.org/donate ), a nonprofit that helps vulnerable kids in more than 120 countries. In 2010 alone, the group trained nearly 17,000 children in El Salvador to protect themselves from traffickers; in Indonesia, they rescued 10,000 kids from dangerous working conditions.
Read more: Stop Child Labor - Solutions For Child Labor - Redbook
1. Find out how many slaves work for you by answering 11 questions at slaveryfootprint.org. You'll discover how much slavery plays a part in producing the things you buy, from the mica that gives certain eyeshadows their shimmer to the cotton in some T-shirts — some raw materials are mined or picked by children as young as 6. "By understanding just how big the problem is, we can start demanding that companies are accountable for who's mining their products and working in their factories," says Amy Nyquist, a 37-year-old mom of two who helped create the tool.
2. Educate a freed child slave in East India for one year. All it takes is giving up a $3 latte once a week for 52 weeks and pledging it to the charity Mercy 29's Lattes for Legacies program (mercy29.org/lattesforlegacies.html). Since 2009, the group has negotiated the release of 380 children from India's quarries, where they worked 12-hour days extracting slate and marble.
3. Scan the barcodes of your favorite products using the Free2Work smartphone app to find out which companies are working to eliminate forced labor from their supply chains. Not For Sale, the nonprofit behind the app, has graded more than 300 brands, which include jewelry, electronics, and even chocolate.
4. Give whatever you can to Save the Children (savethechildren.org/donate ), a nonprofit that helps vulnerable kids in more than 120 countries. In 2010 alone, the group trained nearly 17,000 children in El Salvador to protect themselves from traffickers; in Indonesia, they rescued 10,000 kids from dangerous working conditions.
Read more: Stop Child Labor - Solutions For Child Labor - Redbook
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