Say NO to child labour

Lyrics by the 3eme F

Papu fills baskets with mica

In hazardous conditions in India

Six years old isn't an age to have a job

It's money that his family need

But he has not enough to dress and feed

Making lipsticks and foundation

Is less important than education

[chorus]

There are too many children in child labour

There are more children who work than children who go to school

Let's open our eyes onto their sufferings

Let's tip the scales in their favour

Let's say NO to child labour

[verse]

Pharady, a little girl from Cambodia

Every day she works in a brick factory

Her father is dead and she has siblings

She needs money to buy food and drinks

She dreams of becoming a teacher

But she is so desperate

[chorus]

There are too many children in child labour

There are more children who work than children who go to school

Let's open our eyes onto their sufferings

Let's tip the scales in their favour

Let's say NO to child labour

[verse]

His name is Ebo. He comes from Ghana.

With his friend Malik from dawn to dusk he goes fishing in Lake Volta.

He pulls the heavy nets through the shining water

Working long, hard hours, far from his mother and father.

He wakes up before the sun, then rests when the day is colder

And in his heart he dreams of being a bank manager.

[chorus]

There are too many children in child labour

There are more children who work than children who go to school

Let's open our eyes onto their sufferings

Let's tip the scales in their favour

Let's say NO to child labour

[verse]

Alejandra is twelve and she works in a mangrove in El Salvador collecting shells

Alejandra doesn't have friends because she smells

She works 14 hours to earn a little more than one dollar

She has a lot of siblings and no time to go to school

For her , life seems to be a tunnel with no exit.

[chorus]

There are too many children in child labour

There are more children who work than children who go to school

Let's open our eyes onto their sufferings

Let's tip the scales in their favour

Let's say NO to child labour