"Stolen Childhoods is the first feature documentary on global child labor ever produced. The film features stories of child laborers around the world, told in their own words. Children are shown working in dumps, quarries, brick kilns. One boy has been pressed into forced labor on a fishing platform in the Sea of Sumatra, a fifteen-year-old runaway describes being forced into prostitution on the streets of Mexico City, while a nine-year-old girl picks coffee in Kenya to help her family survive.
The film places these children's stories in the broader context of the worldwide struggle against child labor. Stolen Childhoods provides an understanding of the causes of child labor, what it costs the global community, how it contributes to global insecurity and what it will take to eliminate it.
Shot in eight countries (Brazil, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal and the United States), the film includes slave and bonded labor footage never seen before. It has framing interviews with U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (the leading legislative advocate for global action to eliminate child labor) and human rights advocates for children: Bruce Harris, Pharis Harvey, Inderjit Khurana, Wangari Maathai and Kailash Satyarthi.
The film shows best practice programs that remove children from work and put them in school, so that they have a chance to develop as children and also have a chance of making a reasonable living when they grow up. Stolen Childhoods challenges the viewer to help break the cycle of poverty for the 246 million children laboring at the bottom of the global economy." - Stolen Childhoods Website
Event Details
Date: Sunday, June 12 2011
Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Location: North Creek Presbyterian Church (Sanctuary)
621 164th St. SE
Mill Creek, WA 98012
Admission: Free (registration required)
Directions and registration: www.northcreekpres.org (located under the events tab)
Guest Speaker: Michael Brewer, Founder of Haitian Street Kids Inc.
There are over 300,000child slaves in Haiti. Thousands more have escaped and are homeless and/or at risk of being trafficked.
Ages:Film is appropriate for junior high thru adult. Childcare available for ages 3 months thru 10 years old (childcare arrangements deadline is Friday, June 3)
For more info about the film viewing, contact Sarah Sweeney: sarah@notforsalecampaign.org
StolenChildhoodsWebsite:www.stolenchildhoods.org
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