Awareness campaign to spread education awareness in Labour Colonies during World Day against Child Labour

E-Max News Service
Ambala, June 11, 2011

Hundreds of millions of girls and boys throughout the world are engaged in work that deprives them of adequate education, health, leisure and basic freedoms, violating their rights. Of these children, more than half are exposed to the worst forms of child labour such as work in hazardous environments, slavery, or other forms of forced labour, illicit activities such as drug trafficking and prostitution, as well as involvement in armed conflict. In year 2011 the World Day against Child Labour will be marked around the world with activities to raise awareness that Education is the right response to child labour.

On World Day Against Child Labour Emax Group of Institutions organized a series of activities in labour colonies for the purpose of raising awareness and activism to prevent child labour and to generate awareness about requirement of basic education in human life.

I have no idea what child Labour Day means. Yes, I want to go to school and study but my father is no more. So I have to work with my mother here the whole day to earn some money to help run the house," Ramesh, a Child labour working on a brick kiln told students. Free educational material like books, copies etc were also distributed among the children of labors to

Om Parkash Aggarwal, Chairman of E-Max Group of Institutions said that International labour organization has estimated that some 165 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour. Many of these children work long hours, often in dangerous conditions. Child labour is closely associated with poverty. Many poor families are unable to afford school fees or other school costs. The family may depend on the contribution that a working child makes to the household’s income, and place more importance on that than on education. And when a family has to make a choice between sending either a boy or girl to school, it is often the girl who loses out.