Students at Broad Meadows Middle School in Quincy, Massachusetts, created their own Web site to educate Americans about child labor.
The students raised more than $100,000 through the Web site to help build a school in Punjab, Pakistan. Today, 288 children, who might otherwise be weaving rugs or stitching soccer balls, attend class instead.
For Bonauli, school seems like a distant dream. After endless months of backbreaking labor, the homesick teenager has just one wish: to see his family again.
“I miss my mom,” he says. “For the past 2 1/2 months, I have asked to go home, but there is no one here to replace me. I have to wait until a new worker comes.”
For now, Bonauli works and waits.
Bayanova Amina
