Education of Child Laborers
Child laborers are less likely to attend school. They are kept out of school because families need their help on the farms, and 12-hour workdays make it difficult to attend school. In Côte d'Ivoire, 34 percent of children on cocoa farms attended school compared to 64 percent of children who did not work on farms. Only 33 percent of children from immigrant cocoa workers attended school, while 71 percent of the local children attended school.
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