Why Slavery: Selling Children

S01E06 In the world’s largest democracy, India, millions of vulnerable children are bought and sold, given only what they need to survive another day. Throughout Indian society the mechanisms of bonded slave labor are insidious, powerful and nearly impossible to escape for children who have become trapped in a system driven by profits. Our Indian director looks behind the overwhelming statistics - revealing how the lack of education and persistent poverty provides a breeding ground for modern slavery. In this film we follow the lives of children who have been denied a childhood and an education to be sold to work in mica mines, to pick tea leaves at plantations, to work as domestic helpers and even sold as brides when they are just young girls. Their story, traces back to their families, exposes how perilous circumstances and a deep lack of knowledge about the meaning of slavery results in the selling of children.