13 year old Brighton Ziruvi takes a 12 km every morning with a back pack full of mobile phone chargers to a corner to which he calls his office. He then yells all day trying to sell these sometimes not getting anything, then having to find a ride home from a stranger to meet with his boss. He does this every morning for six days a week. His parents support him in this because his family could use the extra income. His father buys fish then resells them and his mother is a vegetable vendor. This is just one of the kids that go through this everyday, he quit school and so have many of the teachers. Right now the school doors are locked and many of the teachers have quit or have moved out of the country. The number of employed minors, that is under the age of 18, has risen from last year's 60 percent to 75 percent. Aids, the economic imbalance and the loss of family support networks are what has driven these kids to work. There is laws against child labor but the authorities are taking no action against this and they are also blaming parents for letting their kids do this. They believe that if their children go through hard times they will be ready for the future challenges that await them. This is extremely sad because the children are left to fend themselves and they have become prone to drugs alcohol and abuse.
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