In glass factories in Firozabad, India, barefoot children stand on floors littered with broken glass in front of hot furnaces to make the bangles, ashtrays, jugs, and bowls for which the town is famous. Lebanese children dodge between moving cars in Beirut, selling candy or offering to clean windshields. And in war-torn African nations such as Sudan, young boys are recruited as soldiers and trained to kill. In factories, farms, on the streets, and in private homes, children work in miserable conditions that often contribute to permanent health damage. They toil long hours in cramped positions, straining their eyes and limbs.
Temperatures are often too hot or too cold.
Often they aren't given protective clothing to shield them from sharp or hot items or chemicals. The likelihood is extremely great that children's lifespans will be shorter, they will be less capable of entering adulthood with the chance for economic and human success. Anybody who would exploit a child, anybody who would rob a child of his childhood, is robbing God. The ILO estimates that approximately half of the world's working children are in South and Southeast Asia. India reportedly has the largest number of child workers in the world.