World Day Against Child Labour
"End Child Labour in Supply Chain"
Labour Education Foundation in collaboration
with Solidar Switzerland and Group
Development Pakistan
observed the World Day against Child labour
on 28th July 2016 at Pak Heritage Hotel,
Lahore was arranged a seminar. 259 were
participation including children and
community. The representatives of local and
national organizations also participated.
Speakers talked about the present situation
in terms of child rights, reasons behind
child labour, importance of education for
children and the role of government to deal
with the situation. A puppet show was
arranged by "GODH". Children from the
non-formal education centres established
under the project “Piloting an Intervention
to Counter Child labour in Slum of Lahore”
described their thoughts about the issues
related to child labour.
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