Campaign Against CHILD LABOUR ...

"Every Child you encounter is a divine appointment."

- Wess Stanford

Child Labour is unquestioningly one of the burning issues of the present time. Pertaining to this, our team organized a campaign in the college. Prior to the campaign, posters and slogans were prepared to bring out the perception of students regarding this issue. The manifestations that came on those white charts spoke volumes of how somewhere deep down, everybody was sad to see kids working. A rally was organized in the college campus, with the posters exhibited by the members of the rally. An interaction between the rally members and spectator students was also held to disseminate the information to curb this vice. Students made aware were resolute to pass on this information to their family and neighbourhood. The rally went up to an underprivileged area named ‘Thadi’ which is within the campus. Firstly, we interacted with the

children, asking them about their daily routine, whether they went to school or not, what they liked to study, if they were working somewhere. Few cases of child labour came into light. We interacted with several parents and requested them not to deprive their children of their right to education and a happy and healthy life as well as prevent them from becoming labourers under any circumstances. They were informed about the ill-effects of child labour- children becoming weak both physically and mentally due to stress, some resorting to theft for quick money, criminal mindset setting in etc. The children took keen interest in the posters we carried. Some could read and understand the slogans and pictures on it, while those who couldn’t were explained by us. We also interacted with the parents of these child labourers, and their crippling state of poverty was proof

enough why their children had landed in this situation. Yet we requested them to abolish it and educate their children to become better earners when they reach the appropriate age. The day ended on a positive note with parents assuring us that they would pull their children out of this kind of life and return their childhood to them. On our part, we learnt in terms of the societal problems, the manner in which people are made aware and how to execute campaigns, after all “Ideation without execution is delusion”.