Extend Social Protection: Combat Child Labour....... A Portrait
Portraits of former child labourers, withdrawn from work and now enrolled in a National Child Labour Project school in Bhursu, Purulia District, West Bengal, India
World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June 2014
This year, World Day Against Child Labour draws attention to the role of social protection in keeping children out of child labour and removing them from it. Social protection enables access to education, health care and nutrition and plays a critical role in the fight against child labour.
National Child Labour Project (NCLP, Govt. of India), in its 25 years of existence since 1988, only 8, 52,179 child labourers were withdrawn from work and sent to mainstream schools. Currently there are 7311 Special Schools in 266 districts. In these Special Schools, besides formal education, they are provided stipend, nutrition, vocational training and regular health check-ups. This UNICEF-supported Scheme also envisages awareness generation campaigns against the evils of child labour and enforcement of child labour laws.
India: Project helps child labourers return to school - A UNICEF Report
Abolition of Child Labour and Making Education a Reality for Every Child as a Right
Images of Bengal, India
I was part of a team of volunteers when I visited this school. My friends from Himalayan Medical Camp are working with them for years. On that day, all the children of the school received woollen sweaters just before the cold winter. We had lunch with the students and learned their experience.
Extend Social Protection: Combat Child Labour....... A Portrait
Portraits of former child labourers, withdrawn from work and now enrolled in a National Child Labour Project school in Bhursu, Purulia District, West Bengal, India
World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June 2014
This year, World Day Against Child Labour draws attention to the role of social protection in keeping children out of child labour and removing them from it. Social protection enables access to education, health care and nutrition and plays a critical role in the fight against child labour.
National Child Labour Project (NCLP, Govt. of India), in its 25 years of existence since 1988, only 8, 52,179 child labourers were withdrawn from work and sent to mainstream schools. Currently there are 7311 Special Schools in 266 districts. In these Special Schools, besides formal education, they are provided stipend, nutrition, vocational training and regular health check-ups. This UNICEF-supported Scheme also envisages awareness generation campaigns against the evils of child labour and enforcement of child labour laws.
India: Project helps child labourers return to school - A UNICEF Report
Abolition of Child Labour and Making Education a Reality for Every Child as a Right
Images of Bengal, India
I was part of a team of volunteers when I visited this school. My friends from Himalayan Medical Camp are working with them for years. On that day, all the children of the school received woollen sweaters just before the cold winter. We had lunch with the students and learned their experience.