Series 1

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.