Imagine If Your Soccer Ball Were Made By A Six-Year Old Kid

Michael David Smith over at FanHouse has the scoop on tonight’s episode of “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” in which the anchor will talk about the sickening exploitation of Indian children who work under horrendous conditions to get you the soccer balls you can’t live without.

The report demonstrates that soccer balls sold at Wal-Mart and other American stores were produced by children who were sold into indentured servitude by their parents in India. After past scandals about soccer ball companies using child labor, many companies started putting labels on their balls that say the balls weren’t made with child labor. But Real Sports shows that those labels are often sewn on the balls by children as young as 6 years old.

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For more info on what you can do to help in the fight against child exploitation, go to UNICEF.

Indian Child Labor Exploited in Production of Soccer Balls [FanHouse]