Their efforts helped and Nike signed an agreement to stop using child labor. They have also sent letters to help change the conditions for children in Bangladesh. Lauersen told the students at I. J. Samson that children work as carpet makers, and clothing makers. They not only produce goods, but sometimes they are soldiers in wars. They do this because it is cheaper to have children on the battle ground than adults.
Child labor is a vicious cycle, a curse that passes from generation to generation.
Many children work for the same companies as their grandparents and they have to continue to pay off the family debt to the company. When children begin to work in a factory, they often are already in debt and must work to pay it off. If a product is not perfect, the debt increases and so do the generations of that family who will have to be child laborers. The children are often beaten or blinded or branded by hot iron stamps to show ownership to that company. Our only information of child labor comes from insiders, people willing to risk their lives to let the world know about this problem.