posted on April 12, 2001 05:06:56 PM
Despite international efforts to curb the trade, child slavery persists in West and Central Africa, where children are taken from their families in countries like Benin, Togo and Mali for as little as $14 to $28.
Farmers with plantations of cocoa and other cash crops pay modern-day slave traders as much as $340 per child worker in countries such as Gabon and Ivory Coast, where thousands of children between nine and 12 are thought to work on plantations.
posted on April 12, 2001 05:30:16 PM
I'm suffering from "empty nest syndrom." If the children need a decent, clean home the rates are less than adoption fees.
