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Student Groups
Youth groups/clubs are a very important tool in the effort to end child labor. The following is a list of the mini-bios of youth groups dedicated to educating their communities and the world about child labor and working to totally eliminate it. Recognizing and making available for collaboration the many student groups, big and small, established and new, is very, very important. Are you glad to help and be part of the team? Do you see a youth group in your school, city, state or country? If no, why not start one? If you would like help getting started see the Youth Toolkit. Once you're organized be sure to fill out the Club Registration form and the Activities Log each time your group sets or accomplishes a goal so that we can promote your upcoming events and outcomes and send you information about future opportunities to attend youth workshops, conferences, etc. USA
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Labor Savers CONNECTICUT Newtown Global Voice, Newtown High School Two sixteen-year old students, Annie Schneider and Emily Oliver, a U.S. youth delegate to the Children's World Congress, founded Global Voice at Newton High School. Global voice is a human right discussion and charity group. The club's mission is to promote awareness on humanitarian issues, (specifically child labor and its ramifications), discuss long term international political and social strategies, and raise money and collaborate with other charity groups to ease the plight of current and former child laborers. Global Voice plans bi-monthly fundraisers, including a charity concert of local bands every semester. Members of the group also speak about child labor in classrooms and at assemblies. Contact info: Annie Schneider, amsofct@aol.com and Emily Oliver, emilyoliver@iccle.org and emilybmilyboop88@aol.com IOWA
Children Helping Innocent Laborers Democratically (CHILD) CHILD is an Iowa City student-led group dedicated to eliminating child labor. It has grown from a few 6th graders in Ms. Alisa Meggitt's class at Lucas Elementary School to an independent group of approximately 30 students from Lucas Elementary, Hoover Elementary, and Southeast Junior High School. CHILD is organized into four committees: Political, Education, Outreach and Fundraising. The group employs a variety of strategies to educate the public about global child labor and to change policy affecting child labor. For example, CHILD collaborated with the mayor and the city council to establish a child labor proclamation declaring June 2004 "CHILD month, and created and distributed a bookmark publicizing facts and strategies to fight child labor. Contact info: NA Access info: NA MARYLAND Silver Spring Advocates for Children in the Crossfire, John F. Kennedy High School Students from John F. Kennedy High School founded Advocates for Children in the Crossfire after attending the U.S. Department of Labor's "Children in the Crossfire" Conference on Child Soldiers in May 2003. The group aims to bring awareness of the impact of war on children, especially child soldiers. It has sponsored activities that educate and raise funds to support former child soldiers. Contact info: NA Access info: http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/kennedyhs/acad/lti/ lti_source/projects/csa/main.htm MASSACHUSETTS
The Kids Campaign to Build a School for Iqbal, Broad Meadows Middle School The group of students at Broad Meadows formed in 1994 in response to the murder of Pakistani child laborer turned activist Iqbal Masih. The students raised $147,000 to establish a school in Pakistan in memory of Iqbal. The school opened in 1996. Since then, the students have raised awareness of child labor issues as well as funds to build additional schools where children are at-risk of becoming victims of child labor. The group was also a co-founding member of Operation: Day's Work -USA (ODW-USA), a youth coalition that works to build a school each school year in a developing country. The American division of ODW now has 1,000 members, ages 10-17, from 16 middle and high schools in 13 states. ODW education projects have been completed for children in Haiti, Nepal, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Vietnam and by June 2006 add Rwanda. Contact info: Ron Adams, Teacher Advisor, RonAdams2@aol.com Access information: School for Iqbal: http://www.digitalrag.com/iqbal/ ODW-USA: http://www.odwusa.org/ NEW JERSEY Somerville Child Slave Labor News, Immaculata High School In 1997, students at Immaculata High School developed a website and newsletter called Child Slave Labor News under the guidance of Dr. Joseph Muzas, the Technology Director at Immaculata. The newsletter features articles on child slave labor and related book reviews. The staff of the newsletter comes from Ms. Joann Fantina's senior U.S. History II Honors class. Their mission is to educate people about the existence and extent of child slave labor, and to inform consumers about the use of child slave labor to make certain products so that consumers do not contribute to it. Contact info: csln@immaculatahighschool.org Access info: http://www.geocities.com/cslnews/ NEW YORK Brentwood Academy of St. Joseph Chapter of Free the Children
Currently, the group is working on their 4th annual Dinner-Auction to be held on March 25, 2005. In 2004, they raised over $15,000, which went toward building schools in the Massai region of Kenya. From 2002-4, they raised over $35,000 for educational efforts.
The chapter is also now involved in the additional activities:
Contact info: Philip Marinelli, Adult Moderator, pmarinelli@asjli.org Aimee Aubin, student representative, coffeebean5226@aol.com Access info: Website under construction Texas Austin Labor Savers
Contact info: Diana Garcia, teacher advisor: dgrobot@hotmail.com Ruby, 9, group leader, dgrobot@hotmail.com VERMONT Brattleboro Child Labor Education and Action Project (CLEA), Brattleboro Union High School
This is CLEA's second year campaigning for a Sweat Free school in partnership with Sweat Free Communities (www.sweatfree.org). CLEA is working to convince their school board to affiliate with the Workers' Rights Consortium (WRC). The WRC is a nonprofit organization that monitors the labor practices of factories around the world and reports their findings to high schools and universities where the products are sold. CLEA is building support for their campaign by educating their peers and local community members. Above are some photos of an educational table at Muna Fest, the annual fair trade festival in Brattleboro, where CLEA informed the public about the Sweat Free Campaign and collected donations for baked goods. CLEA chapters in Vermont school run their own events. For example, Dover sixth-grade students put together a community educational evening event, including presentations, poetry readings, exhibits depicting different forms of child labor, opportunities to write letters to companies using child labor, and demonstrations allowing community members to experience sewing and other labor as children around the world might experience it.
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