KIDS FOR SALE STACEY DOOLEY INVESTIGATES

Release Date....: 2009.10.03
Genre...........: Documentary

Stacey Dooley, from the BBC Three series Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts,
returns with a two-part series exploring the issue of child labour
in Nepal and the Ivory Coast.

In 2007, fashion fanatic Stacey Dooley's life took an unexpected
turn when she travelled to India for Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts to
live and work alongside the people in the Indian fashion industry
making clothes for the UK high street. In the cramped backstreet
workshops of the Mumbai slums she came face to face with child
labour and what she saw there changed her life.

Stacey realises that this is a global issue and embarks on two
separate journeys taking her into the heart of the child labour
issue. She begins her journey in Nepal where tens of thousands of
children, many under 10, are forced to leave their families to work
in factories or within a form of domestic slavery. Stacey's mission
is to try and find out how and why this can happen and if it's
possible for her to make a difference.

In Kathmandu it is estimated that thousands of children work for
wages. As the government clamps down on child labour in India more
children are crossing the border to work in Nepal's embroidery and
carpet factories. Stacey discovers children working in terrible
conditions and for very little pay. She befriends a young boy who is
beaten by his factory manager and helps him escape to the safety of a
children's hostel.

Stacey meets children who have been sold into domestic slavery by
their families, including a girl in her teens who was rescued three
years ago and is now being looked after and educated in a hostel.
With the aid of a charity Stacey joins her as she tries to save her
13-year-old sister from the same situation.