CHILD LABOUR

                   

 

Introduction:

     Child labour includes prematurely leading adult’s lives working long hours and earns very low wages. Children approximately at the age of4 to 14 works in the factories in a very brutal and squalid conditions most of these works in the industrial areas like textile, carpets, cotton, clothing and footwear are the most common places where these children’s are forced to work for long hours.Childrenfewer than fifteen are made to do work that are physically or mentally harmful and which interrupts their educational or social development.

In These children most of the boys are working the machines that made products and the girls work as maids as well as cleaners for rich peoples. Many small kids work on the road signals, bus stops to sale flowers, newspapers and some eatables. Although some of children earn even through sex, for the pleasure of rich adults. In most of the developing countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Burma and most of the African countries,

South American and east European and other developing countries 50 million children are engaged in manual work to earn for themselves and their families.There are 1800 children between 4 to 14 years of ages employed in 200 tanneries of Qasur for instance up to 10 hours a day. Some 7500 people working without safety measures in the building, surgical instrumental industries including a large number of 8 to 14 years old Rs/- 500 per month. In Gujrat up to 5000 children were employed in fan, pottery and furniture workshops. Child hood is entitled to special care and assistance unconventional on the rights of the child.

Causes:

1.       The children in the developing countries belong to a poor families cannot study because their parents cannot afford their school and study expenditures.

2.       Their families / parents lives hand to mouth due to unemployment.

3.       The above mansion countries peoples become more and more poor. In under developing countries richer becomes richer while poorer becomes poorer, this is the main cause of poverty.

4.       Another cause of the poverty is the increased illiteracy rate; people are mostly unaware to get education and to educate their children.

5.       Most of the poor people don’t know the values of education. They are not conscious about the children’s future. They already set their minds that if their children work to earn money they can support their families. They are not attentive about the hardness and development of future and it is just because of that people are not educated.

6.       There is another cause for child labour and that is the unbalanced increase in population.

7.       Due to the increase in population facilities become rarer i.e. our government does not have many resources to accomplish their needs like education, water, eatables, and other basic facilities and it is because of the over burden of population.

Effects:

1.       The uneducated peoples would not be able to work better for the development of their countries. Less educated peoples are not enough to face the future challenges which lead towards doubtful future.

2.       If there is less increase in our literacy rate it means we are going to produce less medical, engineering, navel, educational, agricultural, economical and commercial, trade and technical facilities. This results insecure future and weak defenders due to which we will be unable to face the future challenges.

3.       Child labour had a great bad effect on our citizenship / societies due to work burden children are unable to get proper attention. Parents are hardly to support their kids that results uncivilized society.

4.       Superstitions are also become the part of these poor societies, build more and more families quickly and are made up of those people who are working there since their childhood. So they are not well civilized peoples and superstition increases there.

5.       Child labour also becomes the main source to increase crime rate because if a child works for the whole day in a factory, workshop, petrol pumps and hotels to earn moneyand he will unable to get time for his moral character so these children becomes the victims of crime. He faces many challenges. He is hated by everyone, he works till late night and earn less wages even he has a large family to support. So he easily attracted towards crime. Our city Karachi is one of the biggest examples of child labour due to which street crimes increases day by day i.e. Mobile Snatching, Target killing and other crimes. There are some people who train young boys towards crime.

6.       Bagging is one of the biggest problems introduced by illiterate peoples to earn money in an easy way so they let their children for bagging.

7.       Child labour effects leadership, because of child labour there are less moral values. The child who becomes a part of society thinks that his people or country have done nothing for him so why do he does. Child labour affects the leadership qualities so this is the reason we have less honest leaders.

8.       All the time he kept his self in the direction of work, he suffers hardships of life and he always meditates how to earn money for living hood. In spite of all this he left illiterate, uncivilized and unaware of modern world and technology.

Prevention:

1.       The advanced countries through their agencies and leaders continue to develop contacts to businesspersons and landlord who does not care about the poor people’s worked in their firms.

These agencies and leader should work to arose ambition to educate their workers especially children under the age of 10 to 18 and to work for their welfare.

2.       Government s should make common and free education from 1 to 10 for everyone that literacy rate increases.

3.       They should make an act / rule that parents must educate their kids.

4.       Seminars should be organized to motivate the people towards education.

5.       Rules and Acts should be followed strictly.

6.       The uneducated city people should be provided suitable job opportunities and facilitates of education and internships.

7.       With assurance of incomes sources for there secure future must be provided.

8.       Feudal system should be brought to an end completely. 
                                                                           



                                                                                                                                              Preparesd by:  
                                                                                                                                              Ayazjames
                                                                                                                                              B.ED / IGCE  2011 – 2012
                                                                                                                                              Dated: 05/09/2011