Pensive Power

The time is now.

In India alone, 300 million live on less than US$1 per day.  Families living on the pittance they get - get it from their children.  As most cannot get a decent job (or read or write for that matter), child labour may be the only way they can survive. 

Child labour means:

• Hard work, for little or no pay
• Kids as young as four or five are forced to work
• They work in dangerous places, like garbage dumps, sweatshops and factories
• They may work up to 17 hours a day, seven days a week
• Kids sometimes eat and sleep in their workplace
• They can’t go to school

The time is now.  The time is now to do something about it - to “do something real”.  The 40 Hour Famine is an event run by World Vision Australia where youth join in to do 40 hours without something and raise money for it.

So this is my time - 40 hours without anything electric - to show to the world how hard it is to live without technology - that is no computer, no watches, no iPods, no TV, nothing electronic… for 40 hours.  Not only will this be a way to describe a life without electricity, the experiences will be a way to find out our dependence on electricity - or the things we do to ruin our world.

It starts today - at 5pm and I will document my thoughts here when I am done!