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INTRODUCTION TO PROJECTS DEDICATED TO THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN

What is child labour?

Some types of work make useful, positive contributions to a child’s development. Work can help children learn about responsibility and develop particular skills that will benefit them and the rest of society. Often, work is a vital source of income that helps to sustain children and their families.

However, across the world, millions of children do extremely hazardous work in harmful conditions, putting their health, education, personal and social development, and even their lives at risk. These are some of the circumstances they face:
                                                                                                   

  • Full time work at a very early age.                                                                              

  • Dangerous workplaces.

  • Excessive working hours,

  • Subject to psychological, verbal, physical and sexual abuse,

  • Obliged to work by circumstances or individuals,

  • Limited or no pay,

  • Work and life on the streets in bad conditions,

  • Inability to escape from the poverty cycle,                                               

  • No access to education,

How big is the problem?

  • The International Labour Organization estimates there are 246 million working children aged between five and 17.

  • 179 million are estimated to work in the worst forms of child labour,

  • One in every eight of the world's 5 to 17 year olds,

  • 111 million children under the age of 15 are in hazardous work and should be immediately withdrawn from this work,

  • 8.4 million children are in slavery, trafficking, debt bondage and other forms of forced labour,

  • Forced recruitment for armed conflict, prostitution, pornography and other illicit activities.

  • Girls are particularly in demand for domestic work.

  • Around 70% of child workers carry out unpaid work for their families.

These statistics are frightening, children all over the world are being used and abused.

Christian Hope International is conscious of the tremendous fight that is going on throughout the world by many agencies to right these wrongs. We believe that the protection of children is crucial to their survival, health, and well-being. Everyday millions of children are exploited, abused, or are victims of violence. Bought and sold like commodities, children are forced to be soldiers, prostitutes, sweatshop workers, and servants. Abuse, exploitation and violence, occurring usually in private, are often elements in organized crime and corruption. Only time reveals the consequences: children uneducated, unhealthy and impoverished.

At a time when children in our country are celebrating Christmas by receiving gifts, sometimes worth many tens of pounds, millions of children are wondering where their next meal will come from.

The United Nations Children’s Fund believes that everyone has a responsibility to see that all children, the world over, are safe, we agree. Christian Hope International works through the Christian Church in the countries we serve to create a protective environment and to give an education to as many children as we can.

Through the Ray of Hope project, we provide a sound education to many hundreds of orphans. Through the Hon. School Governors project, we fund higher education for older children. We are building homes for child led families in Rwanda. We support children’s projects in Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Burundi, Ghana and Uganda .

 

 

 

Christian Hope International: Hope House, The Elms Estate. Church Road. Harold Wood, Essex. RM3 0JU 

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