#stolenchildhood — Public Fediverse posts

Gaza was beautiful because of its children… 💔
Their laughter, their small dreams, their innocence that once filled every place with life.
Today…
Our children are either gone, or carrying pain far beyond their years.
Childhood has been shattered before it could even begin… and their smiles faded too soon.
They never knew the joy of playing…
Instead, they know the lines for water,
Standing in soup kitchens instead of classrooms,
Running after a bite of food to ease their hunger,
Searching for any aid package as if it were a dream.
What kind of childhood is this, stolen before the world’s eyes?
What hearts can bear to see a child carrying the weight of life instead of toys?
The children of Gaza do not need pity…
They need their stolen childhood back.https://gofund.me/2790a0f8🙏💔
#Gaza
#SaveGazaChildren
#StolenChildhood

Gaza was beautiful because of its children… 💔
Their laughter, their small dreams, their innocence that once filled every place with life.
Today…
Our children are either gone, or carrying pain far beyond their years.
Childhood has been shattered before it could even begin… and their smiles faded too soon.
They never knew the joy of playing…
Instead, they know the lines for water,
Standing in soup kitchens instead of classrooms,
Running after a bite of food to ease their hunger,
Searching for any aid package as if it were a dream.
What kind of childhood is this, stolen before the world’s eyes?
What hearts can bear to see a child carrying the weight of life instead of toys?
The children of Gaza do not need pity…
They need their stolen childhood back.https://gofund.me/2790a0f8🙏💔
#Gaza
#SaveGazaChildren
#StolenChildhood

Gaza was beautiful because of its children… 💔
Their laughter, their small dreams, their innocence that once filled every place with life.
Today…
Our children are either gone, or carrying pain far beyond their years.
Childhood has been shattered before it could even begin… and their smiles faded too soon.
They never knew the joy of playing…
Instead, they know the lines for water,
Standing in soup kitchens instead of classrooms,
Running after a bite of food to ease their hunger,
Searching for any aid package as if it were a dream.
What kind of childhood is this, stolen before the world’s eyes?
What hearts can bear to see a child carrying the weight of life instead of toys?
The children of Gaza do not need pity…
They need their stolen childhood back.https://gofund.me/2790a0f8🙏💔
#Gaza
#SaveGazaChildren
#StolenChildhood

Gaza was beautiful because of its children… 💔
Their laughter, their small dreams, their innocence that once filled every place with life.
Today…
Our children are either gone, or carrying pain far beyond their years.
Childhood has been shattered before it could even begin… and their smiles faded too soon.
They never knew the joy of playing…
Instead, they know the lines for water,
Standing in soup kitchens instead of classrooms,
Running after a bite of food to ease their hunger,
Searching for any aid package as if it were a dream.
What kind of childhood is this, stolen before the world’s eyes?
What hearts can bear to see a child carrying the weight of life instead of toys?
The children of Gaza do not need pity…
They need their stolen childhood back.https://gofund.me/2790a0f8🙏💔
#Gaza
#SaveGazaChildren
#StolenChildhood

Today is Menna’s birthday.
She woke up carrying water instead of toys,
and worry instead of joy.
While children around the world blow out candles,
Menna struggles just to survive.
A childhood stolen.
A birthday without happiness.
What injustice could be greater than this?
#SaveGazaChildren #ChildrenNotTargets #StolenChildhood #GazaUnderAttack #LetKidsBeKids #HumanityFailed #JusticeForGaza #StandWithGaza #NoChildShouldSuffer
https://gofund.me/7da7202d8

Geared towards a #teen audience.

On the way to school, a boy is confronted by an enormous man whose hand grabs hold of his school bag and tosses it into the air. The hand pushes him towards a huge padlock, then forces him to enter through the keyhole: the schoolboy is imprisoned in a hazardous lock factory. Like the other children inside, he finds himself forced to operate a high-speed punch press. Struggling to follow the movements of the machine, he cuts off a finger. He tries to run away, but is recaptured.

Back at the factory he starts to cough up blood after inhaling iron particles that will prove lethal: the child dies on the job. Coldly, the hand picks up his body and drops it in the box the padlocks are shipped in, symbol of his murdered innocence.

How can we live with forced child labour? This #India / #Canada co-production is inspired by #Article32 of the United Nations Convention on the #RightsOfTheChild , which particularly upholds the child's right to be protected from economic #exploitation. An #AnimatedFilm without words for 12- to 17-year olds.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/locked/

#ChildrensRights #ForcedChildLabour #ChildLabour #ChildAbuse #StolenChildhood #CanadianFilm #NFB #ShortFilm

Geared towards a #teen audience.

On the way to school, a boy is confronted by an enormous man whose hand grabs hold of his school bag and tosses it into the air. The hand pushes him towards a huge padlock, then forces him to enter through the keyhole: the schoolboy is imprisoned in a hazardous lock factory. Like the other children inside, he finds himself forced to operate a high-speed punch press. Struggling to follow the movements of the machine, he cuts off a finger. He tries to run away, but is recaptured.

Back at the factory he starts to cough up blood after inhaling iron particles that will prove lethal: the child dies on the job. Coldly, the hand picks up his body and drops it in the box the padlocks are shipped in, symbol of his murdered innocence.

How can we live with forced child labour? This #India / #Canada co-production is inspired by #Article32 of the United Nations Convention on the #RightsOfTheChild , which particularly upholds the child's right to be protected from economic #exploitation. An #AnimatedFilm without words for 12- to 17-year olds.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/locked/

#ChildrensRights #ForcedChildLabour #ChildLabour #ChildAbuse #StolenChildhood #CanadianFilm #NFB #ShortFilm

Geared towards a #teen audience.

On the way to school, a boy is confronted by an enormous man whose hand grabs hold of his school bag and tosses it into the air. The hand pushes him towards a huge padlock, then forces him to enter through the keyhole: the schoolboy is imprisoned in a hazardous lock factory. Like the other children inside, he finds himself forced to operate a high-speed punch press. Struggling to follow the movements of the machine, he cuts off a finger. He tries to run away, but is recaptured.

Back at the factory he starts to cough up blood after inhaling iron particles that will prove lethal: the child dies on the job. Coldly, the hand picks up his body and drops it in the box the padlocks are shipped in, symbol of his murdered innocence.

How can we live with forced child labour? This #India / #Canada co-production is inspired by #Article32 of the United Nations Convention on the #RightsOfTheChild , which particularly upholds the child's right to be protected from economic #exploitation. An #AnimatedFilm without words for 12- to 17-year olds.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/locked/

#ChildrensRights #ForcedChildLabour #ChildLabour #ChildAbuse #StolenChildhood #CanadianFilm #NFB #ShortFilm

Geared towards a #teen audience.

On the way to school, a boy is confronted by an enormous man whose hand grabs hold of his school bag and tosses it into the air. The hand pushes him towards a huge padlock, then forces him to enter through the keyhole: the schoolboy is imprisoned in a hazardous lock factory. Like the other children inside, he finds himself forced to operate a high-speed punch press. Struggling to follow the movements of the machine, he cuts off a finger. He tries to run away, but is recaptured.

Back at the factory he starts to cough up blood after inhaling iron particles that will prove lethal: the child dies on the job. Coldly, the hand picks up his body and drops it in the box the padlocks are shipped in, symbol of his murdered innocence.

How can we live with forced child labour? This #India / #Canada co-production is inspired by #Article32 of the United Nations Convention on the #RightsOfTheChild , which particularly upholds the child's right to be protected from economic #exploitation. An #AnimatedFilm without words for 12- to 17-year olds.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/locked/

#ChildrensRights #ForcedChildLabour #ChildLabour #ChildAbuse #StolenChildhood #CanadianFilm #NFB #ShortFilm

Geared towards a #teen audience.

On the way to school, a boy is confronted by an enormous man whose hand grabs hold of his school bag and tosses it into the air. The hand pushes him towards a huge padlock, then forces him to enter through the keyhole: the schoolboy is imprisoned in a hazardous lock factory. Like the other children inside, he finds himself forced to operate a high-speed punch press. Struggling to follow the movements of the machine, he cuts off a finger. He tries to run away, but is recaptured.

Back at the factory he starts to cough up blood after inhaling iron particles that will prove lethal: the child dies on the job. Coldly, the hand picks up his body and drops it in the box the padlocks are shipped in, symbol of his murdered innocence.

How can we live with forced child labour? This #India / #Canada co-production is inspired by #Article32 of the United Nations Convention on the #RightsOfTheChild , which particularly upholds the child's right to be protected from economic #exploitation. An #AnimatedFilm without words for 12- to 17-year olds.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/locked/

#ChildrensRights #ForcedChildLabour #ChildLabour #ChildAbuse #StolenChildhood #CanadianFilm #NFB #ShortFilm

#Boys living in #poverty across the world tell us of their lives, amusements and sometimes their hopes. Boys, Toys and the Big Blue Marble appraises #childhoods destroyed by #slavery , #criminality , #war, #SexualExploitation and human stupidity.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/boys__toys_and_the_big_blue_marble/

#ChildrensLives #ProtectChildren #BoysNeedProtectionToo #StolenChildhood #ChildrensRights #HumanRights #CanadianFilm #NFB #documentary #ChildLabor

#Hopscotch is universal. #Girls around the world trace squares on the ground, then hop through them, trying hard to reach the end. Girls share other interests too; they all like to talk about school, what they want to be when they grow up, who they will marry, how many children they will have, their hopes for a better life for themselves and their family.

But all too often, through poverty, perversion, spite, ignorance or superstition, adults shatter these dreams by denying girls the right to an education, entering them into forced labour, subjecting them to mutilation, sexual abuse and other injustices.

Soni, Kamlesh, Mou, Yui, Dalal, Esmeralda, Fatou, Adiaratou, Safi and Maude range in age from 8 to 14. Some are frail, some strong; all are beautiful. Whether they live in #India #Thailand #Yemen #Peru #BurkinaFaso or #Haiti , they all speak of having much of their #childhood stolen from them. Because they are girls. With subtitles.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/of_hopscotch_and_little_girls/

#BIPOC #ChildrenOfColor #StolenChildhood #ChildrensRights #HumanRights #Documentary #CanadianFilm #NFB #ProtectChildren #ChildAbuse #ChildExploitation #KidsDeserveMore

This isn’t a party. It’s called a “Ghdiyweh” — Gaza’s kids used to put their pocket money together to buy snacks and share.
Today? They’d need a loan and a guarantor. Childhood here costs too much 💔

👉 https://gofund.me/ca5e9ed1
#Gaza #DonateForGaza #StolenChildhood