Category: child labour free zones
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Kyagalanyi Coffee recognised for reducing child labour in Uganda
Kyagalanyi Coffee, part of the Volcafe group, in cooperation with Stop Child Labour, has helped more than 500 children from poor families in the West Nile sub-region to go back to school.
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Stop Child Labour celebrates Child Labour Free Zones on Universal Children’s Day
To celebrate this year’s Universal Day of the Rights of the Child, 20 November, Stop Child Labour reconfirms her pledge made during the Global Conference on Child Labour in Buenos Aires, November 2017.
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Uganda’s teachers are crucial agents of positive change
Stop Child Labour is witnessing great results in Nebbi district, Uganda, where teachers are playing a crucial role in realizing positive change for working children and their families.
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Successes and lessons from Stop Child Labour evaluation
External evaluation concludes: Significant reduction child labour and increased school attendance in child labour free zones.
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Inspiring End-term meeting ‘Out of Work’
All partners of Stop Child Labour met up in Uganda on 20 March 2017 to evaluate the results of the project ‘Out of Work and into School’. The Dutch coalition discussed the progress of the project with local partners from seven countries.
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Jimmy Nelson exhibition #ONCE in Kampala
What would it mean for children if they were simply allowed to be a child? You only get once chance in life to have a childhood. This is what photographer Jimmy Nelson shows with his impressive and positive images in #ONCE.
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Kishan is going to school!
Kishan is one of the youngest children in his classroom. He is six years old and he has recently started school. His sister Kali (aged 12) is sitting next to him. She used to look after him while working in stone processing as well.
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Two neighbourhoods in Tirupur ‘child labour free’
In Tirupur (India), local NGO SAVE – partner of Stop Child Labour – has declared two neighbourhoods ‘child labour free’.
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SCL Mid Term Review 2016
In 2016 a Mid Term Review was carried out in 4 countries: Mali (February), India (March), Uganda (May) and Zimbabwe (September).
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Stop Child Labour presents Delhi Declaration
Last week, Stop Child Labour presented the Delhi Declaration to Ms. Stuti Kacker, the Chairperson of the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) constituted by the Government of India. The Delhi Declaration was adopted during the National Conference on “Working towards the creation of Child Labour Free Zones” in August this year. During…
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Stop Child Labour and Jimmy Nelson illustrate the positive impact of child labour free zones
Stop Child Labour presents the #ONCE photo exhibition. Powerful photographs of a journey to a child labour free zone in Uganda, taken by renowned photographer Jimmy Nelson.
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A teacher’s dedication to bring children back to school
In Mali, teachers union SNEC is training teachers on the concept of child labour, and the creation of child labour free zones.
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Almost 10,000 children ‘Out of Work and into School’
In May 2014, Stop Child Labour started the ‘Out of Work and into School’ programme, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
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Successful National Consultation on Child Labour Free Zones in India
In August, Stop Child Labour organized the National Consultation ‘Stepping Stones for creating Child Labour Free Zones’ in New Delhi, India.
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Annual Report ‘Out of Work and into School’ – year 2
Supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, within this programme we are strengthening and expanding child labour free zones, where possible and relevant with active participation of CSR initiatives and companies.
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“New Indian Child Labour Bill allows many children to work”
ndia has a new law against child labour. Or more precisely: the old Child Labour Act of 1986 was recently amended. On July 19, 2016, the Indian Upper House (Rajya Sabha) approved the amendments.
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Kasubi Family Primary School Uganda demolished
Community members of Kasubi woke up to a shock on 24th May 2016 when the school they had left the previous day was half standing by morning.
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Mr. Kibera: the positive deviant
Kibera Godfrey is a local leader (Defence Secretary) in Kasubi Zone 3, in the Ugandan capital Kampala. This area has a very dense population and like urban poor locales, has high levels of insecure housing, poverty, child labour and single parent headed families.
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Child labour in natural stone: working on solutions together
The Indian sandstone cobble industry is tarnished with stories of poor working conditions, bad labour practices and endemic child labour. While these issues do exist, they are not the whole story.
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Over 43,000 children into school!
In 2012 Stop Child Labour started its project ‘Omar’s Dream – the beginning of the end of child labour’.
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Child labour free goldmines
The organisation EndaMali works to eradicate child labour from informal gold mining in the Sikasso region in Mali. For example by setting up child-labour-free zones.
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First annual report ‘Out of Work and into School’ project
Stop Child Labour (SCL) started the Out of Work and into School project in May 2014, as part of our broader programme to eliminate and remediate all forms of child labour linked to the right to education for all children.
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Child Labour Free Zones evaluated
Over the last 3 years, Stop Child Labour partners have been implementing the Omar’s Dream project to strengthen and expand child labour free zones in 9 African countries. Child labour free zones (CLFZ) are geographical areas where all children are systematically being withdrawn from labour and (re)integrated into formal, full-time schools. In Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia,…
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A classroom full of children
Imagine a classroom full of children. In the first row sits Monica from Uganda, 17 years old, who once was a street vendor and now is a great debater in senior 3. The number of children who were able to start a new life in school is growing fast.
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Child Labour Free Zones Handbook
To share experiences and inspire others to implement and support the area-based approach towards child labour free zones, the international Stop Child Labour movement has developed a handbook with experiences from around the world.
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A good story and some patience
Just a few years ago, Jacinta Namayanja from Uganda did not know that child labour is a bad thing. Today she is one of the most active committee members in preventing it in her village Kitubulu.
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Companies involved
Bram Callewier from the Belgian wholesale ‘Beltrami Natural Stone’ writes in his blog about the company’s efforts to combat child labor in the stone sector in India. Together with the Indian NGO Manjari Beltrami is working on the creation and expansion of child labour free zones.
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Celebrating Child Labour Free Zones
Over the last three years, in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Morocco child labour free zones have been established and in Mali, Senegal and Burkina Faso preparations have been made for the implementation of CLFZ.
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Bi-Annual report for Omar’s Dream project, March 2015
Hivos was granted with the project, “Omar’s Dream, the beginning of the end of child labour” by the Nationale Postcode Loterij in March 2012 for a period of 3 years
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Kick-off new SCL programme – report available now
With this programme, Stop Child Labour aims to strengthen and expand child labour free zones (CLFZ) world-wide, where possible and relevant with active participation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and companies.