The act of moving from one country to another for job opportunities or work.

Migrant Labor=

Bad Living Conditions

Bad Jobs

NO EDUCATION=BAD JOBS

18,000,000 migrant workers in North America

9,000,000 migrant workers in the Middle East

12,000,000 migrant workers in South America

30,000,000 migrant workers in Europe

7,000,000 in Asia191,000,000 migrants just in

2005

MOST PEOPLE TODAY MIGRATE FOR:

BETTER JOB OPPORTUNITIES

HIGHER LIVING STANDARDS

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT

HOW HOME COUNTRIES OF MIGRANTS SUFFER:

1. Educated and skilled citizens leave the country

2. Developing countries lose 10-30% of skilled workers (brain drain)

3. Economies become unstable

OF MIGRANTS ARE WOMEN

ABOUT HALF THE ABOUT HALF THE WORLD’S WORLD’S

POPULATION POPULATION LIVES ON $2 A LIVES ON $2 A

DAYDAY

ABOUT HALF THE ABOUT HALF THE WORLD’S WORLD’S

POPULATION POPULATION LIVES ON $2 A LIVES ON $2 A

DAYDAY

MIGRANT TRENDS

• Although new jobs are being created, the unemployment rate in the U.S has increased by 26% in the last 10 years.

• In 2004, a healthy 5.1 percent global economic rate resulted only in a disappointing 1.8 percent increase in the number of employed people.

INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION(ILO)

Billions of people are unable to find jobs that will maximize their productive potential

Almost 86,000,000 young people are unemployed worldwide accounting for a massive 45 % of the world’s unemployed people

The unemployment rate for youths is 13.8%

INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION (ILO)

The jobs migrants get are…DIRTYDANGEROUSDEGRADINGTHE THREE D’S

Many Filipino women live like this, in

cages. They are

burned, beaten and

starved.

These women come to Hong Kong for employment and get all that in

return. They work hard with sometimes no pay at all.

IS THIS HOW YOU WOULD

WANT TO LIVE?

"We must learn to live together as

brothers or perish together as fools."

Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The [make] use of our strength, because

we’re the cheapest labor force…But we

agree, right, because the money is good.”

-Anonymous

“I didn't like my job. I couldn't sleep at night because of the hours.”

- someone’s son

“I work 14 hours a day to support

my children at home.”

- someone’s brother

“Each day we worked 13, 14, 15 hours, and without days

off. I worked six months without a day off”

-someone’s dad

“Where there’s a chance to

make some money, that’s

where we are.”-someone’s

family

“I will work if I can find work”

-someone’s daughter

THESE ‘SOMEONES’ COULD BE ANYONE…WE ARE LUCKY

THAT THEY ARE NOT US.

1. Collects loans 2. Gives them to

reliable entrepreneurs in need of the money

3. Takes the repayments and gives them back to the lenders

This is Geoffrey Omondi Onyango

This is Mary Wanjiru Karubiu

• The dirty, degrading, and dangerous(3D) jobs the migrant workers receive.

• The “brain drain” in the developing countries.

• The low-income migrant workers receive.

• The need for education and technology.

1. 373 businesses finished paying back their loans

2. $844,575.00 was loaned3. It took just 15.4 hours to fully fund a

business

Just this week through KIVAKIVA…

•THE THREE D’S•KNOWLEDGE•KIVA •BENEFITS

1.To raise awareness about:a) The issues that migrant workers faceb) About how life would be better if they had access to better job opportunities in their own countries through KIVA

SHORT TERM GOALS1.Inform ourselves about this growing issue by

researching in detail on the topic

2.We will raise money using fundraisers and donate it to KIVA. This way we will be helping people get jobs and raising awareness simultaneously.

3. Create a website that raises awareness abouta. The problems faced by migrant workersb. Why migrants leavec. What KIVA does.

LONG TERM GOALSMaintain a website and continue funneling funds to KIVA throughout high school, college and adulthood.

Plan for Achieving the Goals:

STAGE 1Make a Connection with KIVA

STAGE 2Create our website

STAGE 3• Conduct Fundraisers• Show public what they can do• Donate all the money to KIVA

STAGE 4Create a workshop to expose this information

to the public.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

• IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HELPING TO PREVENT LABOR MIGRATION

• OR IF YOU JUST WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT IT

CHECK OUT OUR WIKI AND KIVA’S WEBSITE

www.helpingmigrants.wikispaces.com

www.kiva.org

IT IS UP TO US TO IT IS UP TO US TO MAKE A MAKE A

DIFFERENCE!!!!DIFFERENCE!!!!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

www.smh.com.auwww.bbc.co.ukqueenzy.wordpress.comwww.treklens.comnextgr8twriter.wordpress.comwww.genderandhealth.cawww.elca.orgwww.solarnavigator.netwww.nigeriafirst.orgpatrick.netwww.memorial.ecasd.k12.wi.uswww.msnbc.msn.comwww.uncfsu.eduindonesiahaveanews.blogspot.comhistory1900s.about.comchavez.cde.ca.govwww.ibiblio.orgwww.istockphoto.comwww.pbs.orgwww.open2.netwww.venice-honeymoons.compoligazette.comevolvefish.comwww.flickr.comwww.kiva.orgwww.ilo.orgwww.dictionary.comhttp://www.iht.com/articles/2000/02/18/malay.2.t_0.php