Director's Statement

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Today, for 246 million children, life is nothing but work.

STOLEN CHILDHOODS was made over seven years time, filming children laboring like slaves in eight countries across the globe. These kids understand two things: one, that unlike other children, their childhoods don’t count; and two, that hard work is all they will ever know.

“It’s a slow death,” says Wangari Maathai, 2004’s Nobel Peace Prize winner. Senator Tom Harkin sees child laborers as “a breeding ground for future terrorists.”

The message of STOLEN CHILDHOODS is very timely. Helping these children is an opportunity for us to help ourselves. The film asks us all to keep the promises the world community has already made; to provide universal education for all children, and to act against the poverty, profiteering and prejudice that produces this shameful waste of children’s lives.

When you hear these kids speak for themselves, it is impossible not to listen and not to act.

Len Morris, Director

Posted by galenfilms at March 8, 2005 01:09 PM