Panama reports about 60,000 child laborers

[Judi Lynn]

Panama reports about 60,000 child laborers
www.chinaview.cn 2008-06-12 09:28:20

PANAMA, June 11 (Xinhua) -- About 60,000 child laborers are working in the streets of Panama, director of the Program Casa Esperanza (Hope Home) Rosana Mendez said on Wednesday.

Half of these children are in rural areas, she said a day before the commemoration of the International Day for the Eradication of Child Labor on June 12.

Mendez said that six out of every 10 children quit their studies due to poverty.

According to Mendez, a great percentage of the peasant children living in rural areas had to quit school to work in large agro-industrial centers.

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