It was 9pm, May 13th 2008… the kids were tucked in nicely on their bed. Finally I can sit down to have a cup of hot chocolate milk and a slice of apple pie… (I’m trying to put on some weight… )

The title in BBC program is really catches my attention… Blood, sweat and t-shirt. It makes me interested to watch it. It’s about six young fashion lovers get to experience how their clothes are really made. And these six young fashion addicts from England also experience life as factory workers in India, making clothes for the British high street and also American. There they saw how the branded clothes are actually made by people who lives in a very poor condition and in a very bad working enviroment. But the most dreadful, saddening and really makes me mad is on the last part when they visited Bombay.. the cosmopolitan place of India, but there they have the biggest slum area in the world where it’s actually fills with small and cramp clothes factory that produce branded fashion clothes for the British and American market. There they found a lot of children under age are use as labours. But that’s not all… they also found out that the kids are often being abuse and get ill treated from their bosses. Lots of them being beaten. And when they visit this shelter… a place where they salvage the kids… There’s on kid that told his experience being abused. His boss hang him and pour sugar water on him so the insects or bugs and ants will climb on him and started to bite him. Lots of them ran away because they can’t stand with the abuse that they get. But some choose to stay because they don’t have much choices.

I was crying while watching it… it sounds silly maybe, but really… I mean… my dear God… I thought those kind of story only happen in Oliver Twist story… And when you saw those kids eyes… they are like babies… how can people have heart to do such terible things to them… well, maybe they don’t have heart at all.

I can’t continue to have my pie…. the way they show the living enviroment there makes me lost my appetite.

I don’t think I will see buying clothes in the same way again. I will be more responsible… I will check where it was made and try not to support those irresponsible factory who simply don’t care with people who work for them…

I ended my day with a prayer… “God, please look after those children, save them and comfort them… And show me of a way or maybe more on how to help them.. And with a wish that more and more people care about this issue.. “