Say No To Child Labour

Many of us not aware that every 100 children in the world today, 16 of them are #child labourers, 12 of them are in its worst form, and many will never go to school? There are 246 million child labourers in the world today, most are in developing countries. Some of them are as young as 5, 186 million of them are under 15 and 170 million of them are doing hazardous work and operating dangerous tools or #machinery. These small children's are regularly working on plantations, farms, mines, or even construction site, breathing in noxious fumes and exposed to harsh chemicals or dangers. Of every 100 children, more than half will never finish school, escape poverty or even have a decent job.

First, let all clear what exactly child labour is?

Child labour is the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom. This practice is considered exploitative by many countries and international organizations. Child labour was utilized to varying extents through most of history, but entered public dispute with the beginning of universal schooling, with changes in working conditions during industrialization, and with the emergence of the concepts of workers' and children's rights.

So, the question is how can we stop child labour?

We can solve this problem by improving child labour legislation and laws and also by increasing the quality, relevance and access to education. Many countries have national child labour laws that establish a minimum age for work and regulate working conditions. However legal protection for child labourers is not effective to the kinds of work children are most involved in, such as agriculture and domestic service. In addition, labour laws in many countries do not cover factories employing less than ten people. It is, therefore, important to extend protection so that laws cover the main places where children work.

#Education is also a key to ending the exploitation of children. If an education system is to attract and retain children, its quality and relevance must be improved as well. Children who attend school are less likely to be involved in hazardous or exploitative work. They are also more likely to break out of cycles of poverty. The main obstacle to achieving universal primary education is only the inability and/or the unwillingness of governments to provide quality educational facilities for poor children in rural areas and in city shantytowns, because evidence from around the world has shown that poor families are willing to make sacrifices

to send their children to school when it is economically and physically accessible. In conclusion, child labour should not happen as our greatest "natural resource" is the mind of the children. If child labour continues, the children will not be able to get a good education and our society cannot improve.

So, let's put our hand together to stop #childlabour.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate have Social Responsibility (CSR) targets to help improve community living. In India, though the corporate understand their accountability towards the society and are willing to take initiatives for the betterment, it becomes difficult for them to reach the grass root level.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has acquired new dimensions in the recent years.

Today, companies are proactively taking up this good hearted investment and giving a social value to all their business endeavors.

In India, though corporate have a strong will to dedicate their resources for a social cause, they find it difficult to reach the right people considering the demography and diverse social problems of the country. We thus join hands with the corporate to help them advance their welfare initiatives to the needy families and save on their time and human resources. We help the corporate meet their Corporate Social Responsibility targets through NGOs with expertise in the respective field.

The base of PPCT was laid on the realization of a group of young corporate professionals that it was their corporate social responsibility to give back to the society. Thus, all CSR activities are being designed in alignment with the corporate business strategies.

You can also learn about Corporate Social Responsibility specifically for a project that can help children and women towards their empowerment.

To know more,

#CSR #nonprofit #notearsfoundation #csrfunding

Stop Female foeticide

Female foeticide is a curse in today’s India, especially in rural areas. The frequency of female foeticide in India is increasing day by day. Why people hate girl child? The irony is even elderly women hate girl child. They do not realize one thing, that they too were born as a girl child and became women as they get aged. But tot

ally forget everything and straightaway hate girl children.

The term female foeticide means killing the female foetus in the mother's womb. How cruel? The practice has been followed in India for ages, a country that once described its women as goddess. For this reason, Indian women will soon get extinct. Surprised? The most active part is being played by the women themselves -- why? Just for the mere want of a boy, mothers don't feel bad in strangulating their daughters in their wombs. Can anyone be more cruel? In India, sex ratio stands at a paltry 933:1000, i.e., 67 women short of every 1,000 males.

MAIN CAUSE OF FEMALE FOETICIDE- The general perception is that the cost of marriage and dowry has gone up and so daughters have become greater financial liabilities. The dowry system is invariably blamed. We are not convinced that dowry alone is the main cause of female foeticide. Families that are well-off and do not have to depend on dowry to augment their income are also opting for female foeticide. The real reason seems to be the high status of families with several sons and the low status of families with no sons. Another interesting factor for the preference for sons is that the prospect of migration of sons to, say the Gulf or western countries, is much higher for men than for women (except in special cases such as Kerala from where nurses go all over the world). GLOBALISATION is thus adding to the miseries of the girl child.