Hello.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37415693
Today I read an article about some Syrian children that have to work to provide themselves and their family. We meet 15 year old Kamel that work on a shoe factory with his younger brother. He and his brother is a Syrian refugee from across the border. Kamel works 12 hours a day, 6 days a week and earn 250 turkish lira ($84) each week. He send 150 turkish lira to his family and keep 100 for him and his brother.
We also meet Hussein from Aleppo, which is 12 years old. He also work in a factory, but he works with machines that are dangerous and health damaging. He and his family had to move to Turkey since his hometown Aleppo was under bombing attack, under this action his father was injured and are unable to work. This is why Hussein has to work, too earn money to the family since the father can not do it him self.
These to boys have in common that they both went to school before, they did great in school and was intelligent. But they both had to choose work above school to support their family with money to provide them and for other necessary stuff.
It is so sad that children like them have to work to earn money for their whole family. When children are so small like Kamal and Hussein which is only 15 and 12, they are incapable to provide an entire family. They should go to school to get an adduction so they have an possibility to get a good paid job when they get older, and to have a future.
-Amalie
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Death from overwork.
Hello.
Today i reed this article i found on bbc.com (http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160912-is-there-such-thing-as-death-from-overwork). The article is a about death from overwork and how common this is in Japan.
The Japanese have a term called karoshi, which translate as "death by overwork". If your death reason was karoshi your family will receive an amount of money on $ 20 000 each year from the state and up too $1.600.000 payouts from the company.
In the article we hear about several people that died of karoshi, one man we hear much about is Kenji Hamada. Hamada was an employee at a Tokyo security company, his weeks was based on 15-hours days and a 4 hour long stretch to get to work. One day he was found laying on his desk, his associates thought Hamada was asleep until several hours later they saw he was dead. Hamada died of a heart attack. This was a man at the age of 42 with a wife and a good work ethic, he was good in his job and stood by it.
After the defeat of the second world war was the Japanese worked the longest hours in the world by far, they where workaholics of the highest order. This is why karoshi is so common in Japan.
-Amalie.
Today i reed this article i found on bbc.com (http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160912-is-there-such-thing-as-death-from-overwork). The article is a about death from overwork and how common this is in Japan.
The Japanese have a term called karoshi, which translate as "death by overwork". If your death reason was karoshi your family will receive an amount of money on $ 20 000 each year from the state and up too $1.600.000 payouts from the company.
In the article we hear about several people that died of karoshi, one man we hear much about is Kenji Hamada. Hamada was an employee at a Tokyo security company, his weeks was based on 15-hours days and a 4 hour long stretch to get to work. One day he was found laying on his desk, his associates thought Hamada was asleep until several hours later they saw he was dead. Hamada died of a heart attack. This was a man at the age of 42 with a wife and a good work ethic, he was good in his job and stood by it.
After the defeat of the second world war was the Japanese worked the longest hours in the world by far, they where workaholics of the highest order. This is why karoshi is so common in Japan.
-Amalie.
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