Photos and drawings from Small Change: Bonded Child Labor in India's Silk Industry

Scarred legs and feet of eleven-year-old girl who worked boiling silkworm cocoons until she was taken to a residential school run by a nongovernmental organization. She also showed Human Rights Watch researchers lumpy scars on her hands and explained: "I didn't like working because my hands would get infected. I got holes in my hands because I put them in the hot water and then they got infected. I couldnŐt eat. I had to eat with a spoon."

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