Millions of children are out of schools here and work in shops and garages and as domestic help
TURBAT: The World Day Against Child Labour is celebrated across the world on 12th June, every year. The day is meant to raise awareness about the extent of child labour practised across the world. Even though majority of the countries do not allow children up until a particular age to be legally employed, countries continue to violate these laws. Children are commonly known as the future of a country, and it is the same for Pakistan as well. However, millions of children are out of schools here and work in shops and garages and as domestic help. I am a resident of Turbat, and I have observed that the rate of child labour is increasingly in our area, as more and more children are being employed. Once I asked two small boys, “don’t you want to study?”
They both replied that they wanted to study, but education was very expensive and their poverty was hindering them from acquiring an education. The government already has laws in place against child labour, but now it needs to implement them and ensure children have access to free education so that they may not have to give it up due to cost.
Adnan Maqsood
Published in The Express Tribune, June 15th, 2019.
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