Save the children India - Child labour

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.