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The Importance of Dreaming
(Child Labour)
What is the importance of dreaming? Do you feel enthusiastic to pursue your dream? By
having a dream, does it make you feel you can do anything you want? According to Mahatma
Gandhi,“ We must be the change we wish to see in the world”. We must face the reality and be
able to act about it. Firstly, we should know why child labourers are afraid to speak up and to
achieve their dreams. Secondly, we should know if they have dreams and if they do, what would
it be. Lastly, if they can't do anything about it or if they don’t have enough courage to be able to
stand, WE must find a simple way how we can help the child labourers to take a step and reach
their dreams.Child labourers dreams were stolen by the people who punish them and where they
work for. Dreaming connects to child labour in the way that in a very young age their masters
took the opportunity for them to go to school and have better life but instead, labour forced them
to work without safety provisions of air and other reasons. In order to reach our dreams, we need
to gain courage and determination to articulate for child labourers who are afraid to speak and
stand up for their own rights.
Why are child labourers afraid to speak up? There are a lot of possible reasons why child
labourers are afraid to have other hear their voices. One of the possible reasons is because if they
tried to speak up against the master, there is a chance for them to be harshly punished. In the
novel Iqbal, children who talk back to the master were sent into the Tomb where its is dark, no
air, and live with spiders and scorpions (D’adamo, 39). Another possible reason is because if
they stood against their masters, there is a chance that they’ll be kick out of the workshop and
spend their whole lives living in the streets with no food and shelter to live in (D’Adamo, 17).
The last possible reason why child labourers are afraid to speak up is probably because they’re
threatened by their masters. When Fatima said, “I imagined Hussain Khan sneaking up in the
dark to where I sleep...Next morning I examine my body if there was a sign of oil but there was
none.”, she was so scared when she brings back her dream (D’Adamo, 6). Child labourers are
afraid to speak up because they’re scared that no one will hear them out loud but we should help
them to take a step, take a single time to dream of being free and to receive their basic rights as a
human.

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Having a dream will make you feel you can reach anything but, look at the other side.
Child labourers don’t have the opportunity to dream and reach what they want in the future to
make make their life stable. Freedom, this is the first dream that a lot of child labourers wants to
receive because, being free will make them feel that they belong in this world and it will make
them feel that everything is possible if they have hope in their hearts. Education, for child
labourers to be able to reach their dreams. They have to be educated so, they could find better
jobs to support their families than making bricks and carpets in their entire life. Play, playing is a
common way to spend your childhood and to make good memories with friends. Child labourers
dream is to be able to play with a small ball that will make them feel that once in their life they
experience how to be a child. These are possible dreams that a child labourer wants to receive
when he/she woke up from a nightmare of child labour into a beautiful paradise full of
happiness.
We can help! Lets turn their imagination into a reality. Lets help them to start believing,
to start dreaming and to start hoping. We can help by letting them know that a lot of people care
about them, that a lot of people are finding ways to make them free and by raising awareness to
all the young individuals about their situation. We can help by cooperating with organizations
like UNICEF, Free the Children, Me to We and other organizations that supports and travels
throughout the whole world and especially to developing countries to provide medicines, check-
ups, food and other basic needs that the organizations could equip. We can help by pasting
posters or giving out fliers that has a sentence saying, “ Lets help FREE the child labourers and
give them the basic rights of a human.”. There are a lot of possible ways to help but the most
important is we need to help to the best of our ability and from the bottom of our hearts.
After reading this whole essay about the importance of dreaming, have you wonder why
dreaming is important? In my thoughts, having the opportunity to dream will make us a better
person. Also, dreaming provides us to reach high and do all the things we can to be able to land
at the future we imagine. For us to be able to help the child labourers, we must bring back the
opportunity for child labourers to dream and pursue their dreams to have a better future. It is for
them to realize that they have a big role to play in this world to make it a better place and that
someday they will have a palace with their partner and kids to share happiness with.