Boys earn less than 1 cent a goat...

Here is an article written about two young boys who live in Nairobi, Kenya who work by chasing down goats and turning them in to slaughter houses who than pay them for less than one U.S cent for each goat they bring. Eight year old Boku and his five year old brother Mohammed, wake up each morning and chase down stray goats in the urban area known as Kiamaiko, Nairobi in hopes of being payed to buy food for dinner. Unfortunately, their father passed away and their mother's shop burnt down in a fire and she than became ill so at the tender age of eight and five, Boku and his brother have become the automatic bread winners for their family. As someone who works with up to sixty children each day who are the same age as Boku and Mohammed, I can not imagine a child doing hard labor such as that for less than a penny a day. Unfortunately, in Kiamaiko, Nairobi, child labor is all but uncommon and what makes matters worst is that police don't do much to try and stop the problem from occurring because employees of the slaughter houses pay off the police officers as well. When asked what Boku's biggest dreams were, all he asked for was to watch television and go to school to become a teacher, something that children in the United States have access too more than anything.




http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/09/15/kenya.child.labor/index.html