There are many countries in the world, which due to their socioeconomic conditions, have as something "normal" that children start working from very early ages. Children become a necessary workforce, since the contribution of children can come to represent among the 30-40% of family income. On other occasions, parents interchanged the children as payment of their debts and exploited them. Sometimes, parental contracts for piecework make children need to join in working with them.
All this causes the work to be prioritized over school attendance. Working children they don't have time to go to school (75% of them work days of 30 hours or more per week) and the few who can, end up so tired that their school performance is very low.
To continue fighting such incredible things as these, the International Labor Organization (ILO) has announced this week that it will begin a pilot campaign in Argentina, together with the collaboration of the government of the Argentine province of Santa Fe, to try to end against Child exploitation in this region.
This initiative consists of three points of attack: an informal employment regularization program, another to combat child labor and a third to develop a training plan for labor inspectors. The key point to end this practice is to be able to compensate the parents for the money that the child takes home and also to be able to avoid so that children end up leaving school.
A similar campaign is already taking place in the city of Bahia, in Brazil. In this country, thanks to measures such as this, the rate of child employment has already been reduced by 36.4% over the past year.
Via | Europa press On Babies and more | Work is not a children's thing | Childhood ruined by work
