By naomi and emma

 The people living in Indonesia live in really poor conditions.  They live in these conditions because they don’t have a good job. They don’t pay them a lot of money for working in sweatshops.  Most of the women in Indonesia work in sweat shops and don’t get paid a lot of money and have to work over time they might only get 20cent per hour

 The average Indonesian person lives in a 9X9 shack with one window, no air-conditioning, no furniture, in over 100 degrees humidity.  The streets outside the shacks were lined with open sewers. (Which is.. Ewww!)  At night you would hear football sized rats and fist-sized cockroaches scuttle across the roof of your shack. The Indonesian people have to live with this 

 Nike have used and abused 3 rd world country workers for numerous years.  They pay them under minimum wage and treat them cruelly.

 Nike employ thousand of workers and abuse them verbally and physically, even admitting that the sweatshop managers threw shoes and gave them targets impossible to get.  These are people just like you working hard and getting so little. The average female sweatshop worker gets 50 cents an hour

Conditions are improving for sweatshop workers. Jim Keady and his friend Lisa went over to Indonesia to explore the lives of your average Indonesian person. They lived in a 9X9 box, lived on a sweatshop workers wages, and talked to the Nike company to try and make the Indonesian people’s life better. They now have a charity called Education for Justice and over the years things have improved.

We can buy Fairtrade clothes made by properly paid factory workers. We can try not to buy labels like Adidas, Nike and Reebok  We can donate money and try to make a difference to people just like us

By Emma and Naomi!