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Five children travel across the world to live and work alongside the people who make the everyday items they take for granted.
2011
The five kids go to Indonesia and are put to the test in one of Asia’s most successful toy factories. The work is hot and there are strict rules in place – will they impress their new bosses or will some of them be shown the door?
Stacey takes the kids to their second job in Indonesia, in a vast, high-tech clothing factory, which occupies a site the size of eleven football pitches. The kids find the poverty outside the factory gates difficult to stomach and they finally get the chance to grill a factory boss about workers’ wages.
The kids move on to the Philippines as they visit a jewellery factory on the island of Cebu. The conditions in the factory are hotter than anything they’ve experienced before and tempers begin to fray within the group of kids. They are also taken into the interior of the island to stay in a remote village where many of the people support their families by making the jewellery.
The kids works in a jaw-dropping electronics factory in Manila which makes millions and millions of parts for the electronic gadgets that they rely on at home. The targets in the factory are seriously high and the overall aim is to get a human being to be as efficient as any machine. How will the kids cope with the sterile work environment, the head-to-toe protective suits and working at the fastest of speeds in total silence?
The kids spend the last few days of their trip roughing it out as farm hands on a silk farm in the Philippines. Here they have to handle and process the big fat live bugs needed to make luxury silk – and some of the group have to face deep-seated fears to be able to do the job.
2016
Ellie, Alice, Faith, Joe and Sam begin their working journey in Cambodia.
Five UK kids head off to a remote Cambodian coffee plantation.
The five pampered teens make their way back to one of the thousands of factories in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. They get the chance to make one of their favourite things - onesies! - but it's much more difficult than it looks.
The teens leave Cambodia to fly further east to the island of Taiwan. Here they head straight to an enormous tea plantation where they grow the tea for the British export market.
It's the teens' last factory in Asia and they make their way to a fish-canning plant on the Taiwanese coast.
2012
The British kids kick off their incredible trip by flying over 6000 miles to work in a trainers factory in Malaysia.
For the second leg of their Asian adventure, the five kids are all back together and have landed in Thailand. They now face two tough days working in a huge international cosmetics factory.
The five British kids have moved to Bangkok, Thailand's capital to have a go at making jeans in a factory making thousands of pairs for the international market.
The five British kids move country to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia and their toughest job yet, in a factory processing tinned tuna for the international market.
It's the final leg of their trip and every kid's dream come true - working in a chocolate factory. As Indonesia is the world's third largest producer of cocoa beans, the kids have come to Jogjakarta on the island of Java to start making chocolate bars.
2013
Five kids are set to work in an enormous bike factory in Brazil.
The kids move to the north east coast of Brazil to work in a prawn farm and processing factory.
It's halfway through the kids' epic trip around Brazil and they are in the Amazon rainforest. They work in an enormous technology factory in the Amazonian city of Manaus.
Stacey Dooley takes the kids to the heart of the Brazilian beef industry. At first they work alongside Brazilian cowboys on a cattle ranch in the middle of nowhere. But then they move to the nearby beef-processing factory.
It's the last leg of the kids' incredible adventure around Brazil and they head to a Brazilian town that is the world's capital of baseball cap manufacturing.
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2018
Stacey Dooley takes five kids to join the workforce behind the scenes of a theme park and zoo.
2017
The kids start their working trip with one of the UK's biggest recycling firms, Suez, who sort the waste of 12 million homes.
2014
Five British children work in a cocoa plantation in Ghana.
2015
The kids head to an enormous strawberry farm on the south coast.
The kids join Stacey Dooley as she heads to a huge photo processing factory in Liverpool.
The kids head with Stacey Dooley to Aberystwyth in Wales, to one of the UK's most prestigious bee farms and honey factories.
The kids travel to Hull, to an enormous gourmet sausage factory where millions of the nation's poshest bangers are made.
On the last leg of their tour around Britain's workplaces, Stacey Dooley gives the kids a last chance to prove they're on track at the new Elizabeth Line train depot in London.
Tom, Eloushka, Lucas, Maddie and Madz travel to a massive sandwich factory in London where they make 700,000 sandwiches a week.
The kids head to a cosmetic factory in the south west of England. They work at Lush, where they make 77 million cosmetics every year.
Our five pampered kids make their way to do a day's work in an enormous shoe factory in Wigan.
The five cossetted kids make their way to their final stop on their tour of the UK, to one of the biggest free-range egg farms in the country.
The kids are in Accra, the capital of Ghana, to work on a toxic e-waste site.
The kids travel to the countryside to work on a pineapple farm.
The kids fly to South Africa and to the country's beautiful surfing centre of Jeffreys Bay. They are working with a major surfing and skateboarding brand and immediately start the tricky job of building skateboards.
For the final few days in South Africa, the kids head north to the diamond-mining capital of Africa, Kimberley. The kids cannot believe it when they start work at the world-famous De Beers diamond-processing plant and actually get to touch real diamonds.
The kids head to a thriving British textiles factory in Leicester.
The kids join a cleaning team at a bus garage in south London.
The kids head to a fish-processing factory in the north eastern port of Grimsby.
The kids make their way south west, to work in a clothes recycling centre in Bristol.
Stacey Dooley
Herself - Presenter