They estimate child labor at 12.6 million children working. This biased view of things was not good enough for investigators in the child labor in India. Akshay Mangla a journalist in India dug deeper and found shocking evidence that they government is underestimating the amount of children working. They presumed their census on agricultural child labor. The NGO did not seek out factory production. The NGO was questioned and they responded, “It is easier to check the attendance at school, then to census the amount of children laboring”. If one were to conclude that all children not at school were working the numbers would total at a number between 44 - 100 million children working. Akshay decided to find out why children were sent to work. According to her research most children were sent to work not because the family was desperate, but because they believed hard work was the way out of poverty. Manny people believed this and refused to send their children to school in hope that in future generations they would have the money to leave. While people with less money made sacrifices to send their children to school so that they would become educated and bring them out of poverty with a good job. The other families are putting back breaking labor on their children for low wages while the educated child can make double that in half the …show more content…
If the child were educated they would have good jobs and be able to provide for their next family and send them to school. To end child labor they proposed to the government a universalization of primary schooling. They predict that students in school have a lower chance of working than those who are not enrolled. This idea would become a large part in the ILO “World Against Child Labor”. They raised money for India SSA, the overseers of education, so that they may reach the dream of education for all