Question

Prepare a phamplent on a child labour

Answer 1

Worldwide, as many as 168 million children have jobs. They earn a few cents an hour and they simply do not have enough time to go to school and improve their future prospects. Terre des Hommes is committed to millions of children who face the worst forms of child labour. These children are forced to work in plantations, mines, factories, as domestic slaves and as prostitutes. They perform exhausting work for many hours in a row, often in unhealthy and hazardous conditions. The work is physically, psychologically and/or morally harmful for children. Terre des Hommes is committed to millions of children who face the worst forms of child labour.
What does Terre des Hommes do?

Poverty often leads to child labour. Parents regard their children as additional sources of income. War, migration and discrimination against minorities also leads to child labour. The common belief is that child labour is ‘normal’. Terre des Hommes fights child labour by:

providing medical care and improving risky working conditions;
raising awareness among local communities on the common disastrous consequences of dangerous and poorly paid work, the importance of health care and the need for education for the child;
educating parents to prevent the next generation from ending up in the vicious circle of poverty;
enabling as many children as possible to attend school (again);
lobbying in government bodies to counter child exploitation and to put child rights on the agenda.