Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Child Slavery Protester Murdered
With a partner, develop an interview between a teen news reporter and Iqbal when he visited North America in 1994. The purpose of the interview is to ask Iqbal questions that will inform an audience of teens about Iqbal's life and inspire them about his crusade to help eliminate child labour. 5 open ended questions and responses are required.
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Questions and answers
ReplyDeleteQ: What was it like working in the factory?
A: It was hot and dusty and we worked very hard but we were charged for our rice and fined if we slept on the job. I was treated badly.
Q: What is an example of your bad treatment?
A: I went to the police and they took me back and gave me back to the owner who then beat me and chained me to the loom.
Q: What are you doing to help stop child labour in the world?
A: We are protesting against child labour and going to speak in other countries to raise awareness.
Q: What are you going to do with the money that you won in the RYAA?
A: I’m going to use the money to become a lawyer to help free other children.
Q: What sort of problems do you think will arise from your protesting in your country?
A: I think that people will treat the owner of the carpet factory differently and some might get angry with me because they lost business.
meg-egg and andy boy
aka-Meaghan and Andrew
KPM
News
ReplyDeleteHow –how long has this been going on for?
What –what do you think that you will do after you protest?
When-when do you think the protest is going to end?
Why-why did you still work at the carpet factory if you were being hurt?
Iqbal
This has been going on sense I’ve been working there.
I think I’ll go to a school that I can be a lawyer so I can help ether kids so they won’t gob throw what I have.
When I end it, it doesn’t matter how long it takes.
I did it for my Dad he needs the money so he can pay bake his boss.
Ashley.P
K.P.M
Q: “How did you feel when you were being forced to do child labour in a carpet factory?”
ReplyDeleteA: When I was being forced to work it was very hard, the people were very mean and there was string everywhere. We had to clean up almost every hour or we would get yelled at.
Q: “Were you sent to work at the carpet factory because your dad died or he just didn’t want to work so he sent you instead to pay off the money he owed the owners of the factory?”
A: Well, I was sent to the carpet factory at 4 years old. My dad wasn’t able to work because he got injured working. I needed to make money to support my family and working was the only way to help them.
Q: “How many times did the owners beat you compared to the other children that were there with you?”
A: They didn’t beat me very much compared to the other children, but the beating for the other kids was a bit more. The owners cragged me for my bowl of daily rice more.
Q: “When you went to the human rights group, did they listen to you when you told them about what the owners of the Carpenter Factory was doing to you children there. And if they did what did they do?”
A: Yes they did but not right away at first it took some time they thought I was lying, but I knew I wasn’t.
Q: “When was the last time you saw any of the other kids from the carpenter factory you worked with or beside?”
A: I saw them about 2 years ago in different towns around were the carpet factory was.
Haley K and Gill G
KPM
Interview
ReplyDeleteQ:Can you describe how it was working in the factory?
A:It was hot and extremely dusty. The owner also charged me for my bowl of rice each and every day. it was not fun at all. I had the worst cough from the factory, the owner beat me after I went to the police and told them what he was doing to me and how wrong it was.
Q:How was your life at home did your parents know anything about the factory and what they were doing?
A:I didn’t really have a life at home because after my long hours at the factory I was so sleepy form all the work I have done. My parents knew some of what they were doing but not all of it.
Q:Was there any other kids alone with you working at the Factory?
A:Yes, there was a few others kids. They were mostly girl and I was one out of a few guys. There was a little girl my age that worked long hours too at the loom in the carpet factory.
Q:Were the other kids at the factory treated as bad as you or worse?
A: The other kids were treated the same as me till I went to the police then they were treated better than me. We made friends but then when I didn’t return they would talk to me the owner said they would beat then but they still did talk to me.
Q: Do you think that owner regrets anything he had done or feel bad about it?
A: Yes I am sure that he did and if not then he does not have a heart. Just to be able to beat some weak kids like that and not feel bad about it. I know that if I did what he did then I would feel stupid and bad. He reminds me of Hitler and what he did to those Jewish race.
That’s all and thank you Mr.Iqbal Masih
Melissa T. & Brittney B.
K.P.M
Brad says iqbau how was your lief in pacastan when you
ReplyDeleteLived there iqbau says it was hot and I thought I would spend my life in there and just pain scaery
Brad wow that’s to scary back to you Jim
Kpm
Brad w brad c
Iqbal Interview
ReplyDeleteQuestion 1: How was your life in the factory?
Answer 1: well I think that my life in the factory was a very poor field to be in but I had to do something no matter what the conditions were because I had to pay the owner of the factory all the money that my father owed him.
Question 2: what was your plan to stop child labour?
Answer 2: my plan was to go to the police and tell them about all of the things that they did to me but they didn't really care, so i went to the human rights group who thought that it was wrong for people to make chrilden work and with there help I was taken out and enrolled in to the local school.
Question 3: what specific complications were in the factory?
Well the building was old and all cramped inside and had a very revolting stench, I was also beeten and and many other things.
Question 4: what were some of the things that you were beeten for?
answer 4: Well for example after I went to the police I was chaned up and beeten but I am sorry I can't talk about this at the time.
Please just one more Question.
Question 5: what are you planing to do will all of the money that you won?
Answer 5: the money that I won From the RYAA(Reebok Youth in Action Award) is for me to go to lay school and become a lawyer.
Autumn
KPM
child laber is ofull and we should do somthing about it kids shouldint be treted like that like a 10 year old kid werk a real work I don;tr even have a working goob and i'm 13.
ReplyDeleteAshley.P
K.P.M
Q1- how was your life working at the factory?
ReplyDeleteA1- My life at the factory was horrible if we slept on the job we would get fined!
Q2-what did you do to stop child labour?
A2- I protested withh severel other children
Q3-what happend when you whent to the police?
A3- When i went to the police they just brought me back to the factory and the owner beat me and chained me to the loom, thats the frame they used to weave carpets.
Q4-how were you freed?
A4- i Went to a human rights group and with there help i was freed from the factory
Q4-when you won the reebok what did you want to use the money for?
A5- i wanted to be a lawyer so i was putting the money towards law school.
Savanna M
KPM PS
Questoin- How old were you?
ReplyDeleteIqbal- I was four, now I am ten.
Questoin- Where did you have to work?
Iqbal- I had to work at a Carpet factory.
Questoin- What was it like in the carpet factory?
Iqbal- It was hot and dusty.
Questoin-Why do you want to become a laywer?
Iqbal- To help save child labour
Made by Wolf Caller
Q1: How do you think your parents felt when they had to borrow money and use you to pay it back for them?
ReplyDeleteA1: They didn't show much emotion around me, but I'm sure they were very ashamed.
Q2: How do you think the owner of the factory felt?
A2: I'm not sure he felt anything, he'd been hurting people for so long.
Q3: Were there any reasons you wanted to be a lawyer, other then your past at the factory?
A3: Partially, I wanted there to be more justice in the world. But mainly, it was all about the factory.
Q4: How come the police basically just turned you in?
A4: I believe they were either bribed or intimidated.
Q5: Was it difficult when the Human Rights group got you into a school?
A5: Well, I wasn't the only one there who'd gone through being a Child Labourer, so even though it was a bit nerve racking, it wasn't too bad.
So there's my interview!
Shauna Cate
Watt
Q how much money did he make ?
ReplyDeleteA i made nothing because my dad own
q were did you live ?
a pakiestan
did anybuddy threanten your life?
Watt P.S
Braeden G Christian W
Q how much money did you make?
ReplyDeleteA i made nothing because my dad owned money to the factory owner so i worked paying him back and he fined me for each time i fell asleep and my daily bowl of rice.
Q did you get to eat well?
A no, i got only a bowl of rice.
Q how old where you when you started working?
A i was four years old.
Q how was your life in "the factory"
A not great at all ...horrible.
jesse .d
watt
Q: did some one thretten your life.
ReplyDeleteA: yes the factory owners were mad at me.
Q: how were you freed.
A: by a human rights group.
Q: did you go to the police.
A: yes and they ignored me and took me back to the factory.
Q: did you have alot of enemies.
A: yes i have alot of enemies from the factories.
Q: how did it feel to be chained to a desk and beaten.
A: horrible because it hurt.
troy,stefan,jacob.
watt
Q:When did they take you away from you family?
ReplyDeleteA:Oh, I'm not sure, I don't remember.
Q:Do you have any siblings?
A:No, I'm an only child.
Q:Do you think it was the right chose to go to the police and tell them what was happening?
A:Yes I do think I made the right chose, I got
to be free.
Q:Are you happy you get to go to school?
A:Yes, I'm so happy, I get an education!
Q:Do carpets smell while you are making them?
A:I was around the smell so much that it didn't bother me but when I first started making carpets it made me want to puke.
Megan.F and Katrina.M
Watt
Q: What was it like working in the factory?
ReplyDeleteA:hard and dust and you would work for rice to eat
Q:How old are?
A:I am now 10 yrs old
Q:Do you have any siblings?
A:No...I'm an only child.
Q:Are you happy you get to go to school?
A:Yes im very glad to get an education.
Q:What happend when you went to the police?
A:The didnt belive me!
Keana from watt
Q-How Old were you?
ReplyDeleteA-Currently I am 10
Q-Did you meet any Friends when you finally went to school?
A- Yes I made Many friend , most of them were very wealthy and helped me with stoping child labour
Q-Have you meet your parents before?
A- yes but only a few times, most of my life I was working in the factory
Q- did you ever try to stop the owner of the factory you had to work at ?
A- I had tryed once but he tied me to the loms and made me work
Q- Where do you slep in the factory?
A- We have to sleep on the floor, with only a smal blanket and no heat
-Paige
Watt Public School