31 Aug 2011 • Trafficking and exploitation Brazil

Brazil: Play for little Cinderellas

- Published by Darcissac, Marion

“Cinderellas” is a playlet showing the domestic work so often done by children. The purpose of the performance was above all to alert the audience to the damage caused by the exploitation of child labour, and to encourage them to denounce known cases.

The play is part of a programme launched by the State of Ceará against the exploitation of working children. The programme consists of making professionals in education aware of the phenomenon, with the aim of alerting their pupils and fighting together for child rights, in particular for the eradication of child labour.

The idea for the play was born after workshops on human rights held by a teacher at the Curumins association centre, which protects and helps children exploited by labour. All the youngsters from the centre were fully involved in putting on the play: in the choice of the dialogue, the cast, the costumes or the scenery.

“What we want to do is to link imagination and reality: to make everyone aware that there are lots of Cinderellas, lots of little girls hidden away in various houses”, explains Leonardo Martins, one of the young authors of this playlet.

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