It is early morning and eight-year-old Ibrahim Khodar Arja is already hard at work…Like thousands of children across Lebanon he has joined a growing force of child labourers…Officials estimate that at least 100,000 children, or one in 10 up to 18 years of age, work in Lebanon, mainly in the agriculture sector or as mechanics as well as in jewellery workshops and sweatshops…Nabil Watfa of the International Labour Organisation office in Beirut [said] "These kids, the majority of them boys, work handling chemicals, in garages, in metal-welding shops, carpentry, marble cutting and in farms where they are exposed to pesticides."