Girls are not construction workers

Look at this video. Girls are set to work on a house being renovated. I cannot see them wearing helmets and it is a house where work is going on replacing windows and walls.

Secondly we have to ask what kind of materials which are being used isolating this old house. Asbestos was used around pipes for heating until the 70's. Shouldn't they be wearing some kind of Respiratory protective equipment?

What Circle of Hope ranch are doing in this video should be of concern by the authorities. Some years ago a girl lost her life in California at a Christian boarding school while she was doing similar kind of work because some of the construction collapsed upon her.



That doesn't mean that teenagers cannot be put to work. Lighter work such as painting walls and working with non-electrical tools finishing the rooms should be allowed if they wear proper work clothes and the right protective gear.


Further sources:

• Circle of Hope Girls Ranch: Place of Hope or Place of Fraud, Child Neglect and Abuse? (Chuckles Travels blog)
• Factsheet about the boarding school (Fornits Wiki)
• Falling Lumber Kills Hesperia Girl at Academy (Los Angeles Times)