Agenzia Fides REPORT - In the Mexican state of Chiapas, about 199 thousand children in the age group ranging from 5 to 17 work without receiving any financial compensation. According to the local Labour Office, the scourge of child labor in the streets is still far from resolved, and many of the works in which these children are being used are considered high risk for their physical safety. Unfortunately there are many children who have no alternative livelihoods and try to make a living doing dangerous activities that often involve them in criminal organizations. On the streets of cities it is possibel to find children in parks, at intersections, selling chewing gum, cleaning shoes, washing the windshields of cars and doing any other type of manual activity. Many work in the plantations of coffee, bananas and mangoes, and accompany the migrant farm workers from Central America. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 23/7/2012)
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