El Salvador child Labor By: Evelyn Ramirez and Sarahi Miramontes

El Salvador ●El Salvador is located on North America, the content region is called central America. ●It’s capital is San Salvador

Facts ●poverty rate is 36.5% ●Population: 6,297,400 ●Some Tourist attractions are : San salvador the second biggest city in central America. Also Estadio Cuscatlan a football stadium located in San Salvador. It’s the largest stadium in Central America ●Salvadoran children have fallen victim to poverty, civil wars, and frequent natural catastrophes.

El Salvador child labor laws ●Minimum age to work:14 ●Minimum age for hazard work:18 ●Free education till age:16 ●Prohibition of forced labor is illegal ● El Salvador sets a minimum working age of 18 for dangerous occupations and 14 for most other forms of work

Child Labor Routine ●Harvesting cane requires children to use machetes and other sharp knives to cut sugarcane and strip the leaves off the stalks ●Work they perform for up to nine hours each day in the hot sun ●Up to one-third of the workers on El Salvador’s sugarcane plantations are children under the age of 18 ●Children who work on sugarcane plantations often miss the first several weeks or months of school

Products Produce By EL Salvador ●Coffee ●Fireworks ●Shellfish ●Sugarcanes ●carpets ●clothes ●coal (type of rock)

Please promote Awareness!!! We can all put a stop on this, Let’s not steal their childhood ●make posters ●stop buying stuff that they make ●donate ●protest ●don’t abuse and protect children

Child labor involves many characteristics ●Violates a nation’s minimum age laws ●Threatens children’s physical, mental, or emotional well being ●Involves intolerable abuse, such as child slavery, child trafficking, debt bondage, forced labor, or illicit activities ●Prevents children from going to school ●Uses children to undermine labor standards

This is how hard they work day and night when they only get paid $5 or less