When we go into a store and see an item you like, before you even know the price we should be concerned about another fundamental question: Where does it come and, above all, someone has been exploited to achieve it? The risk, in fact, is to wear a jewel of a childhood snatched dirty sweat. The story below, in English, tells the story of Ravi, an Indian boy of seven years found working 98 hours per week for embedding beads in bracelets sold by chain stores in Britain. We remain shocked and disgusted at the thought that for a handful of pounds, there are adults willing to kill children and the innocence of children.
The article, which takes over a story published by The Times, is borrowed from the Sun .. A BOY of seven
Has Been Found 98 hours a week working in a sweatshop making cheap goods for the Christmas high street.
He was earning just SEVEN PENCE an hour and doing a 14-hour day, from 9am to 11pm seven days a week in a slum in Indian capital Delhi.
The lad, called Ravi, looked pockmarked and exhausted as he glued glitter on to gold napkin rings to be sold in Poundland.
An undercover reporter filmed him working with seven other youngsters at the sweatshop making glittery trinkets for Indian exporter Trishulin Overseas, which supplies the discount store.
Poundland has launched a probe. A spokesman said: "Poundland does not tolerate child labour and will not work with companies that employ children.
"If Trishulin Overseas is found to have breached our moral and ethical standards Poundland will review its relationship with the company and its products won't be sold in any Poundland store."
Reporter Nicola Smith, who was tipped off by a children's charity, said the kids also slept at the factory. She said: "Ravi was by far the smallest and his pale face bore marks that indicated this was not a healthy child."
Trishulin Overseas said it did not know kids were making its goods and promised to end its relationship with the manufacturer. Around 50,000 kids are said to work illegally in Delhi.
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