Hannah Taylor

Have you ever heard about the child activist named Hannah Taylor?

Hannah Taylor was born in 1996 in Winnipeg, Canada. When she was 5 years old, she was pretty shocked to witness a homeless man eating out of a garbage can. After that moment, she had worried about him so much and asked her mom whether she could do something to help him.

The next day she went to the school and asked the teacher if she could speak to the class about the homelessness. After that, the class had some successful art and bake sales to raise money and donate it to a local homeless center.

In my opinion, with her innocent mind, she saw the world is very unfair because she thought that everyone has their own rights to have their own homes to be safe and protected. She also thought that the homeless people are just normal like us and should be treated like family.

In this regard, only at the age of 8, Hannah had founded ‘The Ladybug Foundation’ to help homeless people with her own mission “teaching people that people who are homeless are just like you and me and they just need us to love them and care for them.” Because she wanted the Ladybug Foundation to be really helpful and lucky for the homeless people across the country, so she chose the name ladybug, because ladybugs represent good luck in her country.

According to the foundation’s website, over 3 million dollars has been raised to assist projects across Canada providing shelter, food and safety for homeless people.

I think Hannah Taylor is a very brave and smart young lady who has a beautiful mind and warm heart. And, she has already spoken to the public more than 175 times to tell people about the basic rights of the homeless.  Like Hannah Taylor, we might love helping others. But, frankly speaking, we don’t have enough courage to help others in real life like she has done for the homeless.

My opinion of "child labour"

                    

While we have explored and learned the injustices this week, the teacher introduced us to an Independent News article titled “Boy Leader of Child Labour Protest is Shot Dead”.  It was not only sad but informative that I would like to share the story of the article with you.  By the way, have you ever heard of Iqbal Masih and Child Labour?

The article is about Iqbal Masih who worked at a carpet factory in Pakistan from the age of four until he became 10 years old. He worked 10 hours a day, but he earned only one rupee a day.

The saddest thing is he was murdered by the carpet mafia according to 

Mr. Khan who is chairman of the Bonded Labour Liberation Front. He said, Iqbal was so brave that he tried hard to let the world know the danger of child labour and helped the children to be freed from the carpet factories in his country.

I’m very shocked and surprised about that! Do you know how much one rupee is?

One rupee is approximately 12 KRW. I know carpet work is very hard to do, and very painful.

Do you think children have to work? My answer is absolutely "no". In my opinion, we children should be protected, loved and educated, instead of working at cold and dark places. Children should go to school to learn and communicate with others. For me, it would be very difficult to imagine if I had no choice but to work for my family debt at a terrible condition.