Africa's Child Labor

Africa’s child labor is one of the biggest problems in the world today. It has become a daily source for news and gossip. It has brought out the truth about these children enough so that the world hears it, but not so that the world would actually listen. Child Labor is a topic that really interests me, because I am so against it.
Africa being the poorest continent in the whole world, has the biggest poor population on earth. Over 70% of the region lives and works in extremely poor conditions. Of the 250 million children world wide, it is estimated that 32% work in Africa Most children work in agriculture, which means that 1.2 million are sold into servitude every year in an illicit trade that generates as much as $10 billion annually.
These children are trapped. They are forced to work up to 14 hours a day. Jobs that are even difficult for an adult. They are deprived from many important things that a child needs like school, freedom and rest. What these children normally work with are plantations of rice and cocoa. Some of the girls are domestic servants, bread bakers, and even prostitutes. Some of the boys are field workers, cart pushers, scavengers in abandoned gem and gold mines.
It’s not only that children have to work in these terrible conditions, but they’re also forced to travel very long distances in camels through deserts! Something should certainly be done about this. The world should know better. This is the biggest problem Africa has. The world will not help them. After all the statistics and news there has been about the poor children, no one does anything. Many countries like the U.S.A. could do a lot about this. In fact, they could be very close to solving this problem.