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Sweet hazards: Child labor on Sugarcane Plantations in the Philippines, c2005
Jennifer de Boer
Terre des Hommes Netherlands
E-mail: j.de.boer@tdh.nl, info@tdh.nl

This report aims to illustrate the hazardous labor done by children worldwide by highlighting one particular case. Being illustrative, the report aims at telling the stories of the children's daily working conditions at the sugarcane plantations in Leyte, the Philippines. It does not attempt to be complete in its account of these working and living conditions, nor does it pretend to speak for all children involved in hazardous work of any kind. However, it is Terre des Hommes' conviction that the children from the sugarcane plantations around Ormoc face and voice problems that are of equal importance to other children in the world.



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