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    Many children in the country are forced to work instead of attending school due to poverty. The author describes encountering a young boy struggling to carry a heavy piece of wood, who explained that after his father died he was sent to live with his poor uncle who could not pay for his education. The author also spoke to a young girl working in a restaurant who was not in school, while her father could only afford to educate his two sons. Large numbers of young people roam the streets looking for work to survive, showing that child labor will continue to be a severe problem facing the nation for years to come.

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    Many children in the country are forced to work instead of attending school due to poverty. The author describes encountering a young boy struggling to carry a heavy piece of wood, who explained that after his father died he was sent to live with his poor uncle who could not pay for his education. The author also spoke to a young girl working in a restaurant who was not in school, while her father could only afford to educate his two sons. Large numbers of young people roam the streets looking for work to survive, showing that child labor will continue to be a severe problem facing the nation for years to come.

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    Many children in the country are forced to work instead of attending school due to poverty. The author describes encountering a young boy struggling to carry a heavy piece of wood, who explained that after his father died he was sent to live with his poor uncle who could not pay for his education. The author also spoke to a young girl working in a restaurant who was not in school, while her father could only afford to educate his two sons. Large numbers of young people roam the streets looking for work to survive, showing that child labor will continue to be a severe problem facing the nation for years to come.

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    Lycée de Nôh / CEG de Koukoundi

    Teacher : Mr. SAWADOGO


    Class : 4ème Date : 12/03/2024

    TOPIC: YOUNG PEOPLE IN DANGER

    Text: Children at work

    One day I met a boy carrying a piece of wood eight feet long. It looked heavier than he did. He
    begged me to help him put it down. I asked him why he wasn’t at school. He replied that his father had
    died two years before and that he had been given to an uncle. This uncle was so poor that he couldn’t
    pay for him to have an education.
    Once when I was eating in a restaurant in town, a little girl came up to me to give me some water to
    wash my hands with. When I talked to her, I found that her father had two sons who were at school,
    but that he hadn’t enough money to send his daughter at school as well.
    So many young people wander about our streets looking for jobs. Some of them sell things in the
    streets; others work in people’s houses. But they hardly get any money at all. I saw a little nine-year-
    old girl in a lorry-park picking food off the ground to eat. And every week, more young people pour
    into our towns in search of jobs. This is going to be the greatest problem in our country in the coming
    years.

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