Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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Book: The Story of Iqbal

Today I would advise you to read a really amazing book that he wrote Francis of Adam and talking about the true story of Iqbal Masih, a young Pakistani boy who became a worldwide symbol of the fight against child exploitation.
I read it because I moved in is an extremely important subject that gets entangled in the background because it is believed that now the present day there are no more exploited children, but it is not. The statistics speak for themselves, all over the world there is a high percentage of child exploitation.
Many times our shirts, shoes, bracelets, ... were made by African children, Chinese forced to work to eat a scrap of food. This problem persists, especially in poor countries but do not think that rich countries are different!
This book tells the story of Iqbal, a boy really existed who risked their lives to change the fate of many others like him, had been sold by the family in exchange for $ 16 and was forced to work in carpet weaving , chained to the frame, in unhealthy conditions.
It was not the only one having to endure the harassment of the master Hussain Khan, to share this fate were also Ali, twig, Mary, Mohammed, Karim, Fatima, who is the narrator of the events (I wanted to point out that the names Ali, twig , Mary, Mohammed, Karim, Fatima is not the real names of those children but names coined by Francis of Adam) and many others.
It 's a nice reading also because the book is not very long and the language is simple so as to allow everyone to understand the content, even for children!
's a story that touches the heart and makes us reflect on the luck you have, but also makes me want to do something to stop this bloody and terrible exploitation child that still exists today!

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