The Mortar and Pestle Kid
Walking the streets, we saw this kid sleeping on the side on the road. It was 9:00am and obviously wasn’t going to school. The poor kid looked overworked and he picked a dangerous spot to doze off.

He was selling Mortar and Pestle, which weight easily 6 kg a set, he had 8 on him! I wonder what his quota for the day was? It took nearly a minute for us to wake him up, I couldn’t help but to feel sorry for him

He won’t make money sleeping, but then again hes just a kid. He wouldn’t take charity so we brought a set for $18,000 rupiah ($3).We didn’t challenge his price, we just paid him.

Posted May 13, 2008 at 1:24pm in Mortar and Pestle Mortar Pestle poverty bangund indonesia photo travel story child labour
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