Education is a main factor in effectively reducing child labour. Child labour is diverse and volatile.
Children do manual labour for the sake of money which they to buy food and other items of basic necessity. Can you imagine this situation: A 10-year -old boy comes to a workshop for work because his mother is sick and she requires medicine?
The main responsibility in reducing child labour is on us. We should not allow underage children to do work, provide them financial support, create welfare groups, provide them education, shelter and food.
The government also has an important role to play. It needs to make and implement appropriate law against child labour. It should also take care of the homeless children, their shelter, food, education and all basic needs. NGOs can be, and in some cases are, quite instrumental in curbing this menace.
A mixture of efforts by the aforementioned is what we need to make sure that every child goes to school and doesn’t have to go through child labour.
TOOBA TARIQ
Karachi