Although there are no official children still working on footballs, that doesn`t mean it doesn`t happen. Children can still work from home without problems, as monitoring is only done in recorded sewing facilities. Children who work from home may be subject to less favourable conditions than before the agreement. Another negative aspect of worker centralization is the distance workers must travel to the sewing facilities. Although adults have moving opportunities, they cost money, as do travel prices, if families decide not to move. In some cases, this means that families are less well off financially than they used to be. The agreement aimed to improve working conditions and pay for families living in Sialkot. This would be achieved by helping to ensure that children (children defined as a person under the age of 15) are not forced, or at least not forced, to miss school to make footballs. At best, it was hoped that the agreement would ensure that adults could earn enough money to support their families without their children having to work. This would improve the proportion of young people educated, which I hope would give more employment opportunities to future generations. By significantly increasing the wages of working adults, it was hoped that living conditions would also improve. [www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1901783,00.html Soccer Ball Stitchers Face a Tough Game] – dw-weld.de [usinfo.state.gov/journals/ites/0505/ijee/gorgemans.htm Addressing Child Labor: An Industry Approach] – E-Journal USA, state.gov – [www.imacpak.org/atlanta.htm A newly typed copy of the Atlanta Agreement] – www.imacpak.org [www.imacpak.org/memorandum.htm memorandum of Association of Independent Monitoring Association for Child Labour] – www.imacpak.org [www.itcilo.org/actrav/actrav-english/telearn/global/ilo/guide/ilosoc.htm#Text%20of%20the%20Agreement ILO Parthership to eliminate child labour in the football ball industry in Pakistan] – International Labour Organization Pakistan is responsible for producing 80% of the world`s footballs, the majority of which are manufactured in Sialkot. In the 1990s, before the contract was signed, workers stayed with their parents and played footballs instead of going to school.
No organization has been able to monitor who sewed footballs. There was no monitoring of working conditions, which were sometimes dangerous. „In November 2006, Nike decided to terminate a delivery contract with Saga, after repeatedly attempting to implement the Nike guidelines, without success. Saga has been outsourcing Nike`s non-licensing productions, which could lead to homework and thus make child labor more likely.