215 million children work!

Today, throughout the world, around 215 million children work, many full-time. They do not go to school and have little or no time to play. Many do not receive proper nutrition or care. They are denied the chance to be children. More than half of them are exposed to the worst forms of child labour such as work in hazardous environments, slavery, or other forms of forced labour, illicit activities including drug trafficking and prostitution, as well as involvement in armed conflict.

- International Labour Organization (ILO)

A haunting image of Giles Edmund Newsom, pictured aged 11, became a poster boy for child labour in the U.S.  Giles Edmund Newsom was working at Sanders Cotton Manufacturing Co. in Bessemer City when Lewis Hine photographed him in 1912 as part of an expose of the working conditions of children.  The 11-year-old had just injured his right hand at the textile factory, and it is shown in the image wrapped in a bandage. But what happened to the boy after the haunting  photograph was a mystery, until Joe Manning, a Massachusetts historian scoured records for Giles' death certificate, and found that he died of Spanish Flu in 1918, at around 18 years of age.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174661/Historian-uncovers-tragic-fate-child-labour-poster-boy-Giles-Newsome-captured-haunting-1912-photograph.