ERADICATING CHILD LABOUR

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ERADICATING CHILD LABOUR

• Presented by
• VIDYA SHANKAR
• Relief Foundation , Chennai

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Child Beggary Rag picking
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Road side selling
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Living in Garbage dumps
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Other forms of Child Labour

• Domestic work
• Family Bondage in work places
• Hotels and establishments
• Industries - Micro and Macro
• Criminal gangs

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Causes for Child Labour

• Brutality and harassment by parents or
  stepparents in urban slum areas . Controllable by
  penalties to such parents and awareness on
  children rights by Competent Authorities.
• Rural poverty --gt low nutrition levels--gt reduced
  productivity of persons --gt lack of employment or
  partial employment , illiteracy --gt low priority
  to Education --gt family turns to children for
  living. Strengthening Education system and
  Nutrition status to assist retaining children in
  schools.

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Challenges

• Unwilling children
• Alternatives
• Education system
• Attitude towards Child Labour
• Environment and Family
• Follow up
• Enforcing laws

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Tackling Child Labour

• Area wise Task force to provide counseling and to
  take custody of working children producing them
  to the Child Welfare Committees in the District
• Providing voluntary/ (Probation) supervisory
  officers for their future education and
  vocational training when handing over to parents.
  Local NGO should be alerted on the data of such
  children who need support
• A Help Desk must be installed with NGO support
  for every Child Welfare Committee during its
  functioning.

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Proactive steps

• School going children over 14 years - part time
  vocations which are not hazardous.
• Special classes for slow learners
• Alternative schooling for children -Open schools,
  and home schooling
• To make more persons literate and employable
  rather than just school completed.
• Vocational training in schools in Rural areas.