Lori Zimmaro traveled to the Dominican Republic to meet the limpiabotas. These small boys shine the shoes of businessmen for 10 pesos, or about 25 cents. According to a National Survey of Child Labor taken by the Dominican government, about 18 percent of Dominican children between the ages of five and 17 are employed. "They should be playing," says Zimmaro, "but instead they're working."

Photo courtesy of Lori Zimmaro

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