Issue: #15 | June 2015 LEAD ME FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT STOP CHILD LABOUR In this issue: www.fiinovaon.co.in www.fiinovaon.co.in www.fiinovaon.co.in Fiinovation Joins Hands with CII for Webinar on CSR Stand up & look around Forms of Child Labour in India Aviva - Street To School Fiinobservation of National Days
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Ÿ Polishing gems, diamondsŸ Weaving carpetsŸ Rolling cigarettes (bidis) and incense
sticksŸ Spinning thread/yarn, embroidering,
sewing beads to fabricŸ stiching soccer ballsŸ Mining Mica, Coal
SERVICES
Ÿ Working in hotels, food servce, and certain tourism-related occupationsŸ Working on the street selling fgood and other goods, repairing vehicles and tires, scavenging
and rag pickingŸ Construction, actyivities unknownŸ Domestic Service
13%
18%
70%
Child Labour sector wise
J&K
Punjab
H.P.
Uttarakhand
> 4,50,000
> 2,54,000
> 75,000
> 29,000
> 4,500
> 50
Haryana
Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh
Sikkim
Mizoram
Manipur
Delhi
Lakshadweep
Arunachal Pradesh
NagalandAssam
Meghalaya
Tripura
W.B.
Bihar
Jharkhand
Orissa
Chhattisgarh
GujaratMadhya Pradesh
TamilNadu
Karnataka
GoaAndhra Pradesh
Maharashtra
Telangana
Child Labour sector wise(Work Participation Ratio)
Census 1991
5.7% WPR
5.1% WPR
5.4% WPR
Census 2001
5.1% WPR
4.9% WPR
5% WPR
Census 2011
4.8% WPR
4.2% WPR
4.5% WPR
Chandigarh
Andamans & Nicobar Islands
Forms of Child Labour in India
The total number of child labour in India, aged 5–14, to be at 4.35 million, out of the total child population of 259.64 million
(Census, 2011). According to the statistics provided by Child Rights and You (CRY), in India, there are around 10 million child
labourers. Children continue to engage in child labour in agriculture and in the worst forms of child labour in the manufacturing
of a number of products in the informal economy.
Child Labour sector wise
Working Children Aged 5-14
India remains a source, transit, and destination country for minors trafficked for commercial
sexual exploitation and forced labour in domestic service, agriculture, and activities such as
begging, brick making and to serve as soldiers by extralegal armed groups in conflict zones.
Sources: Census of India 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001, and 2011.
Data from 2008, published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2014.
Understanding Children's Work Project's analysis of statistics from NSS Survey, 2009-2010.
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Kerala
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AVIVA - STREET TO SCHOOLAviva India is a joint venture of Dabur Group of India and Aviva plc of United Kingdom. The former has a 74% stake while Aviva plc has 26% stake in the joint venture. Aviva's Street to School is an initiative to help those who are mostly excluded in our society, i.e. the street children. The original goal of the British multinational was to help 5,00,000 children by 2015, however, they have already achieved more than that.
With the belief that every child has the right to basic education, in India, the global insurer has partnered with NGOs such as CRY (Child Right and You) and 'Save the Children' to facilitate education for underpriviledged children.
India is believed to have the largest number of street children in the world, with Delhi and Kolkata being their hubs. They have set up nine educational activity centres for the street children in these two cities providing education for one year before they are mainstreamed into government schools. The children are facilitated with food, alternative education, arts and crafts, music and dance, recreational activities, medical care, life-skill workshops and counseling. Mobile learning buses were developed in India as children were not able to get to a fixed school.
Save the Children's survey suggested there are about 51,000 street children in Delhi with some 500 in and around Nehru Place where it's corporate office is situated. The target was to help 700 children have access to age-appropriate formal education and vocational opportunities. By August 2011, they have covered 90% of their set target. The Rang Birange Sitare, an education and activity centre came into existence in 2010 under Aviva's S2S programme. It carries out the following activities:
Ÿ Providing life skills education to children through sessions and workshopsŸ Providing remedial education prior to linking age-appropriate schoolingŸ Providing counselling support for trauma and drugs/substance abuse Ÿ Providing services e.g. food, water, clothes, toilet and facilities for bathing etcŸ Working with target schools and teachers, and equipping them with inclusive
learner-friendly teaching-learning skills through regular training Ÿ Carrying out regular health check-ups and linking children to medical support Ÿ Forming and strengthening an advocacy group on the rights of street children
'Street to Children' has also supported CRY's and Jago Foundation's work since January 2011, covering 45 villages in Jharkhand's Koderma and Giridih districts. The programme identifies specific issues affecting children belonging to Dalit community. The initiative raises awareness about child rights, encourages provisions of new government services and facilitates access to existing ones. It is working directly with 228 children in 45 villages and also touches 9,630 children in 51 other villages.
Apart from this, the Aviva Great Wall of Education generates publicity and creates a mass participation experience for the public. It has collected over 10,00,000 books for underprivileged children and charities since launch, and entered into the Limca Book of Records 2011.
Tweets of The Month
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Naveen Jindal @MPNaveenJindal On #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour, let's take a pledge not to tolerate #childlabour. These kids deserve education & better future.State Bank of India @TheOfficialSBI
UNICEF South Asia
@UNICEFROSA
Let’s nurture the
innocence of
childhood with quality
education and end the
menace of child
labour.
#NoChildLabour
United Nations @UNThe journey from
bricks to books IS possible. Pledge to #StopChildLabour
richa anirudh
@richaanirudh
Friday's #NoChildLabour
Day calls for fighting child
labour w/ quality education
http://bit.ly/WDACL2015
#Action2015
Child Rights and You
@CRYINDIA
#ChildLabour
violates the rights of children 2
education, joys of childhood & to
normal physical & mental
development
ŸAccording to the ILO, 168 million children worldwide are engaged in child labour as of 2013.
ŸAgriculture accounts for 60 percent of child labour according to the ILO.
ŸThe sub-Saharan African region has the second highest number of child labourers in the world; about 59 million in 2012.
ŸChild labour among girls fell by 40% since 2000, compared to 25% for boys.
ŸAsia and the Pacific still have the largest numbers (almost 78 million or 9.3% of child population), but Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the region with the highest incidence of child labour (59 million, over 21%).
Food for Thought... Hear the Influencers Speak...Ÿ "Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at
stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labour in my lifetime.”
-Kailash SatyarthiŸ
Ÿ "Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labour and child trafficking.”
-Malala YousafzaiŸ
Ÿ "There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." -Nelson Mandela
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Ÿ "All the problems of the world - Child Labour, Corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: Lack of Compassion."
- Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
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Ÿ “Few human rights abuses are so widely condemned, yet so widely practised. Let us make (child labour) a priority. Because a child in danger is a child that cannot wait.”
-Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary-General
Desertification combined with climatic
changes is one of the greatest
environmental risks today. Increasing
risk due to desertification in vulnerable
part of the world is making the situation
even more miserable. Activities of the
p a s t d e c a d e s , m a i n l y h u m a n
interventions and unsustainable
practices have led to desertification at
an alarming rate, resulting in reduction
of land productivity and threatening
livelihoods of immediate stakeholders.
Rural households which are dependent
on dry land agriculture are most
vulnerable to drought because of low
adaptive capacity, higher sensitivity
and exposure to climatic stresses.
Desertification phenomenon is not just
confined to the desert areas. Since a
large part of the country is undergoing
the process of degradation and
desertification, there is an urgent need
to check and combat these challenges.
If we do not manage our land in a
sustainable manner in the next few
decades, there will be a billion or more
people with little choice to sustain their
livelihoods.
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