We
strongly feel against the issue of Child Labor. It violates the rights of
children, especially the right to education and development. Moreover, working
at a young age has many adverse and direct consequences on these children. They
are deprived of their right to education and they are also deprived of their
free mental, physical, psychological and spiritual growth owing to hazardous
nature of their work and over work that is not compatible with their age. As a
whole it can be said that these children are deprived of their childhood
itself.
Children,
as one of the most vulnerable groups in society, should be afforded our highest
standards of duty and care. The childhood period is vital because of
socialization process by the transmission of attitude, custom, and behavior
through the influence of the family and community, children are vulnerable to
disease, death, and disability owing to their age, sex, place of living, social
economic status and a host of other variables.
The
conditions in which children work is completely unregulated and they are often
made to work without food, and very low wages, resembling situations of
slavery. There are cases of physical, sexual and emotional abuse of child
domestic workers. The argument for domestic work is often that families have
placed their children in these homes for care and employment.
Millions of school-age children worldwide are not in school,
leaving them vulnerable to abuse, neglect or exploitation. It is the need of
the hour to support programs that promote children’s rights and fight child
labor.
Child labor creates and perpetuates poverty. Most of the people belonging to the
lowest strata of society in India have a fatalist and submissive attitude
towards life. A lot of conditions combine to push these children into working
as child labors, which exert physical, social and psychological stress and
hamper the overall development of these children who fall prey to this evil
practice of Child Labor. Living up to our reputation of being the best NGO in Noida, we would keep
putting our efforts in restoring smiles to the faces of the underprivileged
children.
