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Girls at a government school who went through Life Skills Education under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme to help them understands the evils of child labour and early marriage write an exam in the school at Pennagaram, Dharmapuri district in Tamil
Girls at a government school who went through Life Skills Education under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme to help them understands the evils of child labour and early marriage write an exam in the school at Pennagaram, Dharmapuri district in Tamil Nadu. India has the highest number of working children in the world - an estimated 29 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 go to work. Child labour is illegal in India for children under 14 years of age. Girls often work in informal sectors such as domestic work or as paid house helps, which are not counted in official statistics. Most of these children belong to the poorest, most marginalised communities - including Scheduled Castes and Tribes. Children who fall through the gaps and do not have a quality education or who drop out of school - have a higher susceptibility to violence, abuse and exploitation - including a higher risk of entering the child labour workforce, and have a higher risk of being married off as children. 53% of adolescents drop out of school before they are 15 years old. 43% of adolescent girls are married before they are 18 years old. Being outside of the school system means that childern are at prime risk of abuse, vulnerability and violence, and particularly at risk of child marriage, Child marriage is illegal in India. Both boys and girls suffer greatly from the physical, intellectual, psychological and emotional impact of marriage; it cuts short their education as well as their opportunity to make informed decisions about their own future. 46% of girls age 18-29 married before 18, and 23% of boys aged 21-29 married before 21. National Child Labour Protection teachers (NCPL) who run Ôbridging schoolsÕ for child labourers. UNICEF working closely with the state government has jointly run this programme since 2009. Teachers are trained to look for child labourers in the district of Dharmapuri and work to counsel and persuade them to re-start their education. UNICEF/2013/Manpreet Romana..
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Girls at a government school who went through Life Skills Education under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme to help them understands the evils of child labour and early marriage write an exam in the school at Pennagaram, Dharmapuri district in Tamil
Girls at a government school who went through Life Skills Education under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme to help them understands the evils of child labour and early marriage write an exam in the school at Pennagaram, Dharmapuri district in Tamil Nadu. India has the highest number of working children in the world - an estimated 29 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 go to work. Child labour is illegal in India for children under 14 years of age. Girls often work in informal sectors such as domestic work or as paid house helps, which are not counted in official statistics. Most of these children belong to the poorest, most marginalised communities - including Scheduled Castes and Tribes. Children who fall through the gaps and do not have a quality education or who drop out of school - have a higher susceptibility to violence, abuse and exploitation - including a higher risk of entering the child labour workforce, and have a higher risk of being married off as children. 53% of adolescents drop out of school before they are 15 years old. 43% of adolescent girls are married before they are 18 years old. Being outside of the school system means that childern are at prime risk of abuse, vulnerability and violence, and particularly at risk of child marriage, Child marriage is illegal in India. Both boys and girls suffer greatly from the physical, intellectual, psychological and emotional impact of marriage; it cuts short their education as well as their opportunity to make informed decisions about their own future. 46% of girls age 18-29 married before 18, and 23% of boys aged 21-29 married before 21. National Child Labour Protection teachers (NCPL) who run Ôbridging schoolsÕ for child labourers. UNICEF working closely with the state government has jointly run this programme since 2009. Teachers are trained to look for child labourers in the district of Dharmapuri and work to counsel and persuade them to re-start their education. UNICEF/2013/Manpreet Romana..
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