Question

write an imaginary interview on two children who belong to deprived family and are child labours.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Tanzania ratified Convention on the Rights of the Child 1991, but still 32 per cent of the

Tanzanian children estimate to be involved in child labour. Why children work, the work they

most commonly do, and under the conditions which they work differ regionally. This study

aims to find the underlying causes behind child labour among boys in Babati Town, both from

the researcher’s - and the children’s own perspective. The study was accomplished through a

qualitative case study in Babati Town and the data were gathered through semi-structured

interviews, primarily with the child labourers’ themselves to get the right child perspective.

The data from the interviews was analyzed according to four chosen theories of underlying

causes behind child labor with the purpose to see to what extent the findings of the study

correlate to the indicators outlined in each theory. The study found that indicators from each

theory correlating with the Babati case with poverty as the major underlying cause behind the

labouring. From the child labourer’s perspective was poverty the underlying cause for their

labouring. Poverty on its own was though, from the researcher’s perspective, found to be

insufficient to explain the prevalence of child labour. The problem of child labour is massive

due mainly widespread poverty but also due the social context and its traditions, insufficient

funding, school policies and inadequate implementing of important regulations as the

Convention on the Rights of the Child.