Child Labour

1. CHILD LABOUR
Tagore’s High School
Gandhi Nagar – Hyderabad, India
IX Class Girls – B Section

2. WHAT BOTHERS US
EVERYDAY?
 We had a lot of ideas…
And many students!
 So we took a vote on the
most important issues

3. ELECTION DAY
We voted on the three most
important issues that we
wanted to work on together.
The IX Class A and B
Sections voted on 13
different topics.
And one of the topics selected was…

4. THE PROBLEM OF CHILD LABOUR
FEEL!
 Everyday we walk to school, and see girls forced to work in
their houses and boys forced to work in shops.
 In 2006, the Indian government made child labour illegal.
 The children near our houses and near our school are too
young to work and not go to school.

5. H OW D O W E S T O P C H I L D L A B O U R ?
To stop child labour we have to know what causes it:
• Parents send children to work because they need money
• Parents don’t realize the importance of education
• Children are afraid of being beaten for not working
A group discussion about child
labour and why it exists.

6. DO!
1. Talk to parents and children
2. Invite children to our school for a breakfast program.
3. Teach the children English basics since they cannot always go
to school, and tell them about the laws against child labour.

7. S O LV I N G T H E P RO B L E M …
Discussing child labor with James
Tulloch. He works with child laborers
in Tuni.
Making charts for our breakfast program.

8. BREAKFAST AT TAGORE’S
Three girls showed up on Sunday morning.
The other seven children were kept at work
by their parents. We had fun with our new
friends!

9. WHAT DID WE LEARN?
 Some child laborers have gone to school before, but their parents need
them to make money.
 Everyone can enjoy learning.
 If we can teach our new friends, it will be easier for them to go back to
school.
We are going to continue to teach our friends and learn
about ways to stop child labour!

11. THANK YOU FROM THE
IX/B CLASS GIRLS!
Amitha  Sindhuja  Kavya  Shirisha  Sunanda
Swetha  Rama  Devi  Ganga  Chaitanya
Nausheen  Pavani  Pavithra  Sravani
Akhilandeshwari  Prashanthi  Mamatha  Lavanya