Len Morris remembers the experience of filming an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Fourteen-year-old Lesley Achieng, a new student at the Kenyan Schoolhouse program, recently wrote us a letter about her family circumstances and her excitement at being able to go to secondary school. While her adoptive family has been kind to take her in, she misses her siblings and her mom. “It is a fact that I am not a member of this family.”
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Recently, we had World Day Against Child Labor and unfortunately there’s little to celebrate.
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Alliance 8.7 and the world community aim to end the recruitment and use of children in war by 2025. Here’s how they’re thinking it could work.
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The interests of children need to be central to policy and decision-making. A White House Office for Children and Youth would give children a seat at the table.
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Children often know and practice empathy intuitively… they know when something is amiss or just wrong.
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Houses of Joy in Costa Rica provide food security, child care and medical services for semi-nomadic indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé “trans-border migrant” families - a transformational alliance between governments, civil society and coffee farmers.
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The pandemic has forced an economic reset. Perhaps we will take the opportunity to create a world without child labor.
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Garment production in India shut down abruptly as a result of Covid 19. Multinational companies who skipped out on their obligations to pay for work already ordered made matters much worse. The Indian government appealed for employers to “be kind” to their desperate employees. Unfortunately, kindness is discretionary.
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When I met Mariela Montez, age ten, she was working with her father picking onions for a penny a pound outside Eagle Pass, Texas.
She had the flu and could barely speak. She had risen at 4am and would work twelve hours…
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"Child Abuse - down, down!" Indian schoolchildren chant to protect their peers from sexual exploitation on the Bharat Yatra marching throughout India.
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Four years after his death, Robin shows up in India.
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Any infrastructure plan that ignores the needs of children is a failed plan.
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With the Presidential election in full-swing here are four things President Obama and the Congress can do to help children, now.
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It really is past time for the United States to join the rest of the world in ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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If we can imagine a world where a tiny tax on financial transactions generates hundreds of billions of dollars every year to be used to alleviate poverty, it would be fair to ask, "Who gets this money", "How do we deliver money and services to the poor?" and, "How can we be sure the aid won't be stolen or wasted?"
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For the past twenty years, I have filmed children all over the world in every conceivable form of poverty and abuse, from global child labor (Stolen Childhoods, 2004) to the struggles of street children (Rescuing Emmanuel, 2009). The Same Heart is the third film in this trilogy, and it confronts one of the central issues of our time: growing inequality and poverty with its impacts on children in the U.S. and abroad.
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The playground appeared perfectly normal with students clustered here and there laughing and enjoying their lunch break. But if you looked closely, you’d notice another group milling about or sitting alone, the students with empty lunch pails.
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Len Morris is interviewed for Worldview on WBEZ 91.5 Chicago Public Radio about The Same Heart.
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