Child Labor in Guatemala

• By: Diamond-Charlay

The map of Guatemala

Introduction

Thesis

• In Guatemala child labor is big because most people are poor there, and the parents get 30% of the money for income. Another thing is the children don’t get an education so they don’t have power to do what they want in life.

About Guatemala

• Guatemala is the size of Tennessee • Its friends A.K.A. neighbors are Mexico on the

north &west, and Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador are east

• The cool highlands with the heaviest population • The tropical area along the Pacific and

Caribbean coasts• The tropical jungle in the northern lowlands

(known as the Petén).

Questions

• 1.)Who started child labor?

• 2.)What started child labor?

• 3.)When did child labor start?

• 4.)Where is child labor most at?

• 5.Why do we have child labor?

• 6.)How did child labor start?

Answers

• 1.) The people in Guatemala started child labor.• 2.)The thing that started child labor is families

being poor.• 3.)Child labor in Guatemala has been going on

too long know body knows when it started.• 4.)Child labor is all around the world but in Latin

America Guatemala is the worst.• 6.)Child labor started when parents made thire

kids go and work.

What is Child Labor

• The sad thing about it is that the kids pay 30% of their parents income.

• Many children work up to 17 hours a day. Street vending, shoe shining, washing & watching cars, begging, and performing talents on the streets (torch blowing, juggling, singing) and an important ones are prostitution and theft.

Children in Factories

• Why do we need child labor?

• We have people that work in factories and they get paid for doing the work.

• The children get paid barely nothing and they have to work for up to 17 hours a day.

Jobs

• Street vending, shoe shining, washing & watching cars, begging, and performing talents on the streets (torch blowing, juggling, singing) and an important ones are prostitution and theft.

Video of child labor!!!!!!!

• http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/wdacl/english.htm

Explanation about the jobs

• Prostitution is legal in Guatemala the toughest fine is 400 dollars.

• The youngest age to be doing prostitution is