International Workers’ Day

Students in Form VI have been learning a lot about children’s rights and responsibilities.

All children should have access to food, water, shelter, clothing, education, health care and play. However, in the world today many many children must work. This is called child labour.

Where do children work?

They might clean houses or stores. They might work in factories. Factory work can be very dangerous, especially if children do not have the right training and equipment to protect them. Children also have jobs in farms, working long hour in the fields.

How many children are involved in child labour?

In the world’s poorest countries, around 1 in 4 children are engaged in child labour. Today, throughout the world, around 218 million children work, many full-time.

Why is it wrong for children to work?

Because children involved in child labour

• do not go to school.
• have little or no time to play.
• many do not receive proper nutrition  or care.
• are denied the chance to be children.

And.. What about Argentina?

Who has not seen a child begging for money in the streets, cleaning windscreens, juggling or selling things in the underground?

Around 1.5 million children are working in Argentina TODAY. That’s six times as many as 1995, when the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimated 252,000 child workers.

This is very sad news! So let’s use Labour Day today to SAY NO TO CHILD LABOUR.

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