Nevertheless something has to be done. For the proliferating jumbos are smashing woodlands, destroying agriculture and threatening the black rhino, which competes with the elephant for food. From Time magazine , Vol. Brazilian street children stand atop trains beside a 3,300 volt cable that powers the trains to speeds of up to 120 kilometres an hour. It s a form of suicide, said the father of a surfista who was killed.
Brazilian youth is suffering so much, they see no reason to live.
From Foreign Policy , quoted in World Development Forum , Vol. 9, No.3,1991. Indian kids miss out India is the world s largest producer of illiterates and child labourers - and there is a direct connection. Of the 82 million Indian children within the 6-14 year old age group, half do not go to school. They don t have to, because there are no laws against parents withdrawing their children from the classroom. Of those who do enter the first grade of schooling, only 40 per cent complete four years, the minimum necessary to achieve literacy.