Finding a living or providing for a family's life is commonly done by the head of the family or parents.
But what if the condition of the parents in the family is not possible to do that?
It is usually the child who will step in. To help take over this role.
Things like this now certainly have a lot we find in the community.
Children who should use their daily time to play after study, so have to work extra for their family.
And here are five stories of elementary school-aged children who are known to be working hard for their families.
- itemAbil, snack seller
Recently instagram users have also been overwhelmed with the picture of an elementary school boy in a Boy Scout uniform who was asleep near a cardboard box containing snacks.
The child, known as Abil, sells daily around Unverstas Indrapasta PGRI (UNINDRA), Jakarta.
Demonstrating some instagram users, Abil is often caught sleeping while selling.
Often they also find this boy with a hiccup of heat until his face looks pale.
The snacks that Abil sells are priced around Rp 5 thousand which he usually sells while doing homework and studying.
- item Dimas, wet cake seller
In front of a mini.market area Mojokerto, East Java community may be familiar with the figure of a cycling boy who brought a basket of cake wet.
Son named Dimas always sells his cake in the same place after school.
Wet cake that he sold was priced around Rp 3 thousand and for one day usually elementary school students can bring home the money of Rp 60 thousand to Rp 100 thousand.
Not infrequently Dimas also menunggui selling until night until the cake runs out.
The boy from Mojokerto admitted that the cake he was selling was made by his mother who could not go selling because he had to take care of his younger brother.
According to the mother, Dimas is very passionate and never complained when selling.
Nor does he force Dimas to leave if the child is not willing to sell. What is certain according to his mother's sales did not make the school's performance decreased and Dimas was happy when doing so.
- itemSiti, snack seller
If Dimas sells his wares every home from school, it is different from Siti Faisah.
Siti, who is one of the students of SDN Cobbuk Curah Tatal Village, Situbondo, East Java is bringing his daily wares to school for sale among his friends.
Siti chose to sell snacks that are liked by his friends.
Although still young, it seems that Siti is good at managing his merchandise because she has a unique record that she filled every trade.
This elementary school student explained that the purpose of her selling is to pay for school fees because her parents only work as a farm laborer whose income is uncertain.
- itemStar, seller molen
Bintang, a student of SDN 07 Semanai, Kalimantan, who daily sells his wares along the way to school.
This child must travel 7 km a day in order to attend school.
In that journey, Bintang took the time to sell the molen cake which was priced Rp.1000.
Stars do not feel ashamed when selling, because this is what he can do to stay in school.
The star actually has an older brother who was forced to drop out due to cost issues.
Therefore Bintang did not want to fare just like his brother, so he decided to help the parents by selling it.
- itemRoin, roasted dumplings seller
If the four children above are still lucky to be able to continue school, things are different in Roin's nature.
This child daily decided to sell siomay burn because his family did not have enough cost to live everyday.
Roin was born into an underprivileged family and eventually he had to quit school in fourth grade.
After that he decided to follow his brother who sells. Roin admitted actually the old man had forbidden him, but because it intends to improve family life then this boy decided to wander from Brebes to Klaten for sale.
According to people who often see the figure of Roin, the boy is known as a shy child and sometimes avoids talking to people who are not so familiar.
"That little boy is fighting with time."
Miris is indeed if you have to see the fact that around us
There are so many children who should have had a childhood experience with friends but have to struggle with other responsibilities.
Actually it also has a positive side where these children can already learn a lot about life early on.
Hopefully not more and more children have to experience this out there.