With your help, we can end child labor by 2020. Additionally, they provide support for children like Sanju who have been rescued. By using a rigorous and internationally recognized certification program, GoodWeave certifies carpet supply chains as being free of child labor. Stand With Sanju demonstrates what an important role consumers play in making a difference. His work contributed immeasurably to the growing movement to establish effective laws to limit child labor.Stop Child LaborĬhild servitude is a crime committed against 168 million children worldwide. Hine traveled the country for 10 years and took over 5,000 pictures of child laborers, and in most cases, recorded the names and ages of the children.

Lewis Hine was hired in 1908 as an investigator and photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, a private organization founded in New York City in 1904. If you do not remember how to use Make Beliefs Comix click here to watch the how to video. Using your observations and imaginations, create comic strips using Make Beliefs Comix that describes what you think happened just before and just after this photograph was taken.

Analyze the photograph alone or with a partner and then use the bibliographic information to answer confirm and answer any of your initial questions. Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family’s future.Īnalyze the Lewis Hine photograph and use your observations to produce a creative writing piece. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal.

She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. This photograph, taken by Lewis Hine, of Addie Card, age 12, inspired author Elizabeth Winthrop to write the book titled, Counting on Grace.Ĭounting on Grace is about 12 year old Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill.

Counting on grace by elizabeth winthrop