Stolen Dreams
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Shankar is six years old. He is expected to handle the heavy instruments used to cut knots in each carpet. many many his thumbs and fingers were cut when the cutter slips. He cries for his motheybut but receives a beating instead. He is not taken to a hospital or given any medicine instead his a ....
Middle of paper
.... in all the ways familiar to us and our children.
A work day can be 10 12 or 14 hrs long and work is done 6-7 days a week. Often these children do not see their parents for a month a at a time. Some of them never get to see their parents. Many of them have been bonded to the company because their family had to borrow money. Because of this they have become enslaved a the debt with the accumulating interest never seems to be paid.
The abuses these children have to endure are unbeleivable. Th ....
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Word count: 966
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)