AMERICA/CUBA - Poverty forces children to beg in the streets and work

Thursday, 13 November 2014

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Havana (Agenzia Fides) - According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, child labor in Cuba is still a heavy plague. Some children are forced by their own parents to beg.
The majority of Cuban workers earn very little, they live off of fishing to have at least a dollar a day and work as tourist guides, just to have something to eat. In the eastern part of Cuba, on the road leading from Guantanamo to Baracoa, there are children whose only "hobby" is to carry firewood and water with a rudimentary home-made trailer, so that mothers can cook or help fathers to breed animals which they then eat. They have never played and often cannot even go to school. They have no electricity. They get up at six in the morning to milk the cows and then leave with their fathers to look for firewood. There are so many stories of these little ones who have to sacrifice their lives in order to face the harsh reality that they live every day. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 13/11/2014)